Christian Eriksen Quotes

A lot of the guys who played in the 1995 final for Ajax had been there since the age of 12 or 13. Patrick Kluivert and Edgar Davids had been there from age seven or eight, so I had a lot of catching up to do.

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

I knew before I came to Arsenal what kind of players were here. And of course, in training, you can see how many good players are here; the most important thing is that we work well as a team - that's the most important thing.

I'm confident I can be a success in English football.

I want to be a footballer. I don't want to do anything else.

My first goal was to become a professional footballer.

I've been in football since I was eight. Of course I know what I'm talking about.

A return to the Eredivisie would be nice, but only if it's Ajax. I don't want to play for another team.

It was always my dream to be at Ajax.

NFL Europe helped me quite a bit. It was a situation where I came out of college and spent the first few months of my career over in Europe.

I started playing full-equipment football when I was 6 years old. My mom actually got me started in it.

In Holland, I have got the buzz back playing as a centre-forward, which is where I perform best. Ajax always appealed to me from when I was young and they gave me a chance to play in the Champions League too.

It was always a dream and goal of mine to try out in English football.

I think England has to change the way they are teaching football because football is changing, and the method isn't changing as much.

I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.

I started playing football young, and my career was on the pitch.

I was never a super sub before I came to City. I used to play always from the beginning, and I scored a lot of goals not as a sub.

I'm very fortunate to have worked at two unbelievable clubs, Manchester City and Barcelona, and I feel like I've really changed the way I look at football from being around and in those environments, so I feel really privileged.

Simeone, De Boer, Van Basten - fantastic names to have worked with.

In Spain, I'd taken Villarreal to league runners-up and the quarter-final and then semi-final of the Champions League.

All I dreamed of when I became a footballer was to play for a club as big as Real Madrid. It's maybe the most famous and best club in the history of football.

It was through the Hammerheads that I got a route into the professional game, via a trial at Sunderland from Mick McCarthy and then an invitation to come back to Carlisle in 2004.

I played a lot at Bayer Leverkusen. I played in the Champions League and in the Bundesliga. I have played a lot of games, and it was a very good decision to go to Leverkusen.

Ajax is in every way a fantastic club.

My dad's an old football player.