Top 54 Quotes & Sayings by Gylfi Sigurdsson

I always played football as a kid and never really thought about anything else. I always wanted to do that.

As a player you want to play every game that you can and play as many minutes as you can.

As long as I'm playing, I'm very happy.

I'd rather play golf than go on to Wikipedia!

I had a fantastic manager in Ralf Rangnick.

I'm not going to lie, living in London is incredible. You've got so much going on.

Things just seem easier when you build up a bit of a points gap.

Personally 2016 has been a very good year.

It is good for the morale of the team when you see top players being brought in.

My interest in football in England started very young. The Premier League was on TV and my dad used to watch it so naturally I would be sat with him on a Saturday or a Sunday watching the football with him.

I probably played too much on the left for my liking - I'm not that kind of player who is going to get the ball and run past the full-back. Of course if it happens, you've got to do a job for the team, and no problem. But I feel better - and think you get more out of me - playing me through the middle.

If you get a few successive games you are going to get in to your stride and once you start playing more you get more confidence and then you can push on.

The things I love are scoring goals and getting in the box, getting on the end of crosses and taking up positions where the ball might fall to you.

I eat healthy and train.

You can understand why it is difficult for the players who have long-term injuries when they have to watch the boys going out training every day.

Of course I want to play my way into the starting line-up, that's what every player wants to do.

Moise Kean looks like a very good footballer with a lot of different qualities.

Confidence makes a big difference.

I think every professional player wants to play every game and every minute because you never know when you're going to get a chance to score, in the first minute or the 90th.

For me, I think the Champions League is the biggest trophy, but playing for your country in the World Cup... it's hard to choose.

I always say I enjoyed my time at Spurs and I improved as a player so I don't look back and think 'what if?'

We are a small nation that nobody expects anything of.

My dad played in Iceland and I think went over to Sweden for a couple of years.

My grandad was a fisherman and my dad was a fisherman.

It's nice to have pressure. It keeps you going and keeps you working hard but if you think too much about it then it could get into your head, and you play your best football when you're enjoying yourself and if you're relaxed - so that's what I'll try to do.

I played on frozen pitches, on snow. I had only a couple of years indoor before I went to England.

Playing for Iceland, you always find the stats are against you, so I never pay too much attention to them.

I just wanted to play football and didn't get the chance in Germany in my second season there.

Bony is probably physically stronger than Kane but I think Harry Kane comes a little bit deeper to pick up the ball some times.

Beckham and Frank Lampard were the ones that I particularly liked watching, and with Lampard scoring so many goals from midfield it was hard not to look up to him.

Tottenham have always played fantastic football. I remember watching them many years ago when I was younger, and they'd concede three but they'd score four.

With young players you never know how quickly they're going adapt.

It's a good feeling when you deliver under a lot of pressure.

I spent a lot of time with Swansea City and it will always be a club that means a lot to me, and it still does.

I don't really mind where I play, as long as I'm playing. I'm just happy to be on the pitch - as long as it's not defensive.

You ask any player and the Champions League is where he wants to be.

My dad has a few boats, but I'm not into fishing.

Of course, as a young boy it was always my dream to either go to the Premier League or the Bundesliga.

I do not regret it and I really enjoyed my time at Spurs. I improved a lot playing with big players.

I'm not sure if it's easier to play against teams who try to play football against you rather than sit back.

My dad and my brother took me over to England a few times to train with various clubs. My brother basically ended up sending a CD to a few clubs of me playing football. That seems like a long time ago now, but it ended up signing for Reading.

This is why I had to go to Swansea. I didn't want to stay on the bench for another year.

It's something we've all been waiting to see happen to Icelandic football - to actually go to the World Cup.

As long as I'm playing I'm happy.

I'd spent three and a half years at Swansea, played my first Premier League game there.

All of the players want to play in the Premier League. I think it's about being in the right place at the right time.

Being a linesman is probably the hardest job in football.

Frank Lampard was always the player I tried to model myself on. The amount of goals he scored from midfield was incredible. On and off the pitch, he was what I wanted to be.

When I was young, all I wanted to do was play football.

Like every other player, I want to play.

Genetically I think I'm more equipped for long distances than high-intensity sprints.

Joining the family business was always Plan B or Plan C.

Swansea is totally different. The people here are so friendly, different to London where everyone is in a rush.

When someone gets injured someone has to step up and fill his place.