A biography for Nicklas Bendtnerhasn’t been written yet.
“The key thing was that I had no one in my life saying 'no.' Everyone I knew was just saying what I wanted to hear.”
“If you find a football player who says he is happy to sit and watch and not play then I think he needs to find another job.”
“It is important for me to play and when Arsene tells me to play a position I'll do that.”
“There have been some things I'd have liked to have changed if I could, on and off the field.”
“The fact that I don't get a lot of opportunities to score goals doesn't change the fact that I can score goals. But it also frustrates me. Sometimes I could tear down walls.”
“Personally, I think I pay a big price with my body, my time and with never being able to have privacy when I am out and around other people.”
“I sometimes forget, after arriving at Arsenal as a 16-year-old, that I'm only on trial with the big guns.”
“The way you rate strikers is with goals and with teams, it is what they win. It's part of the game.”
“I have been in a situation before where I made a lot of money without being happy.”
“When I was injured, and couldn't get the excitement from that absolute living-on-the-edge feeling on the pitch, gambling gave me adrenaline. Obviously the higher the risk, the higher the adrenaline. So you go for high stakes.”
“I feel like I have been misunderstood, in certain aspects.”
“I love playing lots of games.”
“If you play in the Championship you want to play in the Premier League. If you play for a top team you want to maybe go to Spain and play for Barcelona and Real Madrid.”
“I am not complaining. It's a natural part of being a professional football but it is definitely a price to pay when, for example, you can't go out to eat in a restaurant with your girlfriend without photographers chasing you.”
“I have always had a huge desire but perhaps not always the right perspective.”
“It wasn't Wenger's job to babysit me.”
“A lot of people think that it is all about the money, but money does not matter if you are not happy.”
“History is filled with examples of players moving between rival clubs and I can't rule out clubs due to where I might have been in the past.”
“It might be fun to play for Copenhagen, because it was there that it all began.”
“I didn't want to be just another guy who played football and lost all his money and didn't use his brain.”