Christian Eriksen Quotes

I'm an attacker, and forwards always want to score.

I can win the ball. I can clear the ball.

When I play, I like to use my pace and to link up with my team-mates.

Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

My favourite position is as midfielder, playing with Xabi and Khedira.

It's the striker's job to put the ball in the net and it's up to us to make important tackles and blocks.

Normally, midfielders only pass the ball, but I dribble as well.

When I first began playing football, I was a striker.

In soccer, you have to be sly.

I have scored some goals, but that is not everything, is it? Football is more than that.

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

You have to win on the ball.

I'm just a basketball player. There's so much I can do on the floor.

Accelerating, dribbling, and creating opportunities are the DNA of my game.

Football, if we bring it down very simply, it's when you have the ball and when you don't.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

For me, soccer was a dance.

A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

I just say I'd like to be an attacking midfielder.