Rafael Van Der Vaart Quotes
2 min readMar 24
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- Andre Villas-Boas wasn’t the ideal coach for me. He bought Gylfi Sigurdsson and then told me he would be his new №10.
- I think the Premier League is the best league in the world.
- I love to play big games, it makes you a bigger player.
- Andre Villas-Boas wasn’t the ideal coach for me.
- The way I played, Tottenham was the best phase of my career. It’s always a warm feeling when I think back.
- I’ve always said the one change that would’ve been nice is if I’d been a bit faster — like fast enough to be able to run past people instead of just being overtaken all the time!
- Every time I walked into White Hart Lane, I got goosebumps. I felt so privileged to play there, to make the people happy.
- I like to play football, and of course I like to play for Tottenham, but I try to enjoy every game because that’s the most important thing, to have fun on the pitch, and then you can play good.
- When I was young, the best moment came when I was 10 and I got invited to the academy. I remember getting all this Ajax training gear and suddenly I was able to call myself an Ajax player.
- At home, I make the decisions.
- Leaving Tottenham was not by best choice but, apart from that, there haven’t been too many regrets in my career.
- It’s really important that when you come to a club, you know the history. My dream was always Real Madrid or Barcelona, but for the fans of Tottenham, the club is the biggest in the world. So that’s how I treated it.
- But Tottenham is pure football and pure people… nice, warm people. That’s why I like Tottenham. And everybody who comes to the stadium can smell the history.
- When your relationship is good, you can tell somebody the truth.
- I didn’t want to be the next version of any player — I wanted to establish my own name.
- When you put something on Instagram, the English people are always so positive. As a player, you need that.
- I never had anything against Arsenal, but when I joined Spurs I tried to learn about the club’s traditions and I soon found out about the magnitude of the match.
- I think it’s a good match, Dutch players playing in England.
- When I lose the fun in football, it’s better to quit.
- When I was younger, I always knew I was a pretty good player, but it was impossible to foresee how far I’d go. I had a left foot and vision like no one else, but I wasn’t the quickest and my right foot wasn’t so great, so there were things I needed to work on.
