Christian Eriksen Quotes

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

In this day and age, in modern goalkeeping, if you come out and you catch the ball and you get smacked, you're going to get the foul.

With handball, you have soft facts but not hard facts. The shot is wide, and then suddenly, it's a penalty.

The players on the pitch are the ones who decide who takes the spot-kick.

It's not easy to score three goals in 70 minutes.

We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.

With Andy Cole up front they can score at any time. We'll be watching him very closely.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

Anything in between the white lines is deemed football.

It's not only Van Dijk who can stop Ronaldo. But Ronaldo is good enough to create against really good defenders.

I've always stuck my arms behind my back anyway when trying to block a shot in the penalty area.

I was always a striker ever since I was a little boy. I always wanted to put the ball in the net and have the feeling of scoring a goal.

Charge-taking can be one effective way to affect the rim, but the whistle's gonna blow a lot.

The way you stop a takedown in wrestling is to meet force with force. You don't try to go away.

The World Cup ball is very fast, and you need to think very quickly, when to punch and when to catch.

The World Cup is a competition in which everything needs to work to your advantage. Players need to be fit, decisions have to go in your favour, and details such as a red card can cost a team dearly.

When we have to defend, I just try to recover the ball for the team because it's important, but I always try to go forward when we have the ball.

The pitch is always going to be the same lines, same goal height. It's just a game of football.

I think if you're raising your foot high whether it's an overhead kick or not, you're risking a red card.

If you face the goalkeeper, you have to wait for him to go and then put the ball in the other side. It's easy to say it but not so easy to do it when you are in the 88th minute of a game. So you must practise.

Of course you don't want to concede a goal in any game.

It's true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to score them.

Penalty shoot-outs are the most high-pressure situation that a goalkeeper will face, and in a World Cup, it's even worse because the stakes are so high.

As a little kid, I wasn't even interested in football. The first time I played, I was nine, and I volunteered to go in goal, thinking it would be exciting to save penalties. In fact, it was really boring.