Dutch - Athlete | May 10, 1969 -
I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends.
Dennis Bergkamp
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The regular things in my life now - training sessions and playing matches - will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.
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I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me.
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What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax.
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Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.
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My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.
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It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
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It's fantastic for Arsenal, and for English football as well. You've got an English club with a lot of young English talent committing themselves to a club.
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A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.
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Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.
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When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him?'
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When I retired in 2006, I stayed for a further two years in England. I stayed because I wanted to be in England without being a footballer, without the rhythm. I wanted to enjoy the city.
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