A biography for Nicklas Bendtnerhasn’t been written yet.
“When I'm 100% fit I cannot accept sitting on the bench.”
“I am who I am and it's up to the others to decide whether they like me or not.”
“I am tired of being portrayed as an idiot.”
“I do not believe I'm over-confident.”
“If I look honestly at myself, I see that I do not have a poor technique, not a bad shot and not a bad positional ability than many others around.”
“I'm fairly quick.”
“When I was younger I wasn't as professional as I should have been.”
“I watch all the Arsenal games I can and I've even got this thing that, when something happens in the game, my phone goes ping.”
“We want to try and get our beautiful football into trophies.”
“When I had a lot of injuries on the pitch, I couldn't find that excitement level of going on, playing in front of 60,000. There wasn't anything that lived up to that. The only time I could get that competitive feeling was going to the casino.”
“It is difficult to compare a footballer's wage to the wage of a bank manager or the manager of a large company. They are without a doubt putting a lot into their jobs and they are important to other people's lives as well but my line of work is different to that.”
“I felt my father's love when I was the best at something.”
“You need to be excited to come in to work.”
“I lost a lot of money, an unrealistic amount.”
“At Juventus, the training has been different to - and much harder than - anything I've done before.”
“I have always seen myself as a striker and it is my goal to play as a striker all the time.”
“I think people probably realise that I'm a pretty nice guy.”
“Messi has a fantastic vision of the game and technically he is incredible. The things he does are not easy and even more impressive is the speed at which he does them. But the decisive thing for me is not the fact that he scores a lot of goals now, but how he plays within the team. In that way, he is even better.”
“I have sort of realised that all people are concerned about is goals, goals, goals. You can play horrific, but if you score goals it doesn't matter.”
“I have my own opinion about what is a man and what is not a man.”