A biography for Freddie Ljungberghasn’t been written yet.
“You can be yourself in London. If you are a bit different in the way you dress or look it is no problem.”
“When friends come over from Europe, they think it's going to be rainy in Seattle but it's beautiful. It's a hidden pearl. And people here respect your private life.”
“For me, happy footballers play the best football.”
“My roles for Arsenal and Sweden are very different.”
“It is up to the coaches to tell me how to play.”
“What I try to focus on is going forward.”
“I go from day to day and game to game.”
“Sometimes you have to just plug away, plug away in your game of football and maybe when your opponent gets a bit more tired you get that little extra metre and that's when you score the goals.”
“I don't want to sound bigheaded or anything, but when you reach a certain level of recognition or fame, or whatever you want to call it, when you're young the first couple of years you think, 'Oh, this is fun.'”
“I try to see what the players can do and not what they can't do.”
“Everyone that works knows that work is hard sometimes.”
“I played as a 10 and, in Sweden, they let me take as many touches as I could. All of a sudden, I come to Arsenal and I have to play one and two touches - it was a little bit alien to me.”
“Clubs have always wanted to buy me during the summer but I have always stayed loyal because I wanted to stay at Arsenal.”
“The problem in Sweden is that, when the players are younger, they are not allowed to develop their own style and skills.”
“And at West Ham no one gives you a puzzled look if you get called up for your national team and players are never asked to play on injections.”
“I was an underwear model for Calvin Klein for a few years. It is not something I wanted to do at first. I never regretted it, but I am a shy person, and to stand there buck naked in front of a camera was scary.”
“I didn't know exactly what to expect when I first came to Seattle but I have to say that how the city and the fans have embraced me has gone beyond my wildest dreams and for that I am forever grateful.”
“There were a lot of reasons why I wanted to leave Arsenal.”
“If you want to play at Arsenal you need to be top, top, you need precision.”
“Where I came from had a lot of friends. A big social circle.”