Thierry Henry Quotes

I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

To be a footballer was just a dream, and I don't believe in dreams. I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

I've followed the NBA religiously since I was a kid, and now because of my boy Tony Parker, I'm a huge Spurs fan.

And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

I can't think of a striker in the world who has scored so many important goals, never mind a midfielder.

I can't stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can't - I would die.

I'm still young and everyday I want to learn more. I feel I am beginning to find myself.

Quite simply, it is true that I can be a pig! It is not a lie to say that. Sometimes, I feel that I am in the right even when I am wrong

People are talking about me more than they talk about Eastenders.

I have the possibility to watch Messi in training each morning, and because of what he demonstrates he is the best player in the world, he stated during a press conference. It is a pleasure to watch him, and because of the way he plays he is an undisputed leader of the Barcelona team.

I like to score a proper goal, you know - a passing move.

I am not a cheat and never have been

You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.

A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.

But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.

I hope you have enjoyed watching as much as I have enjoyed taking part.

I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

What I believe is this: Catalunya is not Spain, it is something else and you have to feel it.

To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football.

If I had a Paul Scholes in my team, everything would be around him. At Manchester United, they saw it like that, but I think Paul Scholes is one of the best I've played against in this league, and seen anywhere.

I don't like to plan anything.

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

I'll never forget the club or him I don't see Arsenal without Arsene Wenger

I can't understand why Scholes has never won the player of the year award. He should have won it long ago. Maybe it's because he doesn't seek the limelight like some of the other 'stars'.

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience ... when I was young I wasn't scared about anything

I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.

At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.

I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.

Arsenal will always have a place in my heart and that is the same for so many other people too. There's a strong sense of 'family' at the Club and it is why those people that leave so often find their way back, to be around that feeling and I believe that even when you go a bit of you never leaves Arsenal anyway, that is how it has been for me. I'm just so glad that I've been able to be part of the story of the football club.

It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him.

The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. At the age of just 27, he is already their record goalscorer in competitive, league, as well as continental games. He is a sensation, but still he can improve. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. My motivation comes from playing the game I love.

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.

So few people recognize me, I can do what anyone does.

I would love this place to be my garden.
(on Arsenal's old stadium)

So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.

There's nothing I'm scared of in football.

Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength and he is a genuine competitor.

Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference.

When we won the league at Tottenham, they came back 2-2 in the last-minute of the game, and they're celebrating - because they're happy to draw against us, obviously. And I remember saying to Mauricio Tarricco, do you realise we only need a point to be Champions? And they all [were really shocked]. So I said 'Yes. Now we're going to celebrate on your pitch. Bye bye!'

There's just something about Highbury that is difficult to describe. When you first arrive, you hardly see the stadium and wonder where it is but then you find it between two blocks of flats

Everybody knows how much I love Arsenal - I became a fan. And to be out here [in front of the Emirates as a statue] celebrating a goal against Tottenham, there's not much else to say after thatLike I've said before, Once a Gooner, always a Gooner.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

That is something that I always want to do when I arrive somewhere is to know about the culture of the country, about the club and make sure I know what it takes to wear the jersey.

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

You learn from your mistakes.

People always talk about Ronaldinho, and everything but I didnt see him today - I saw Henrik Larsson. Two times he came on - he changed the game, that is what killed the game - sometimes you talk about Ronaldinho and Etoo and people like that, you need to talk about the proper footballer who made the difference and that was Henrik Larsson tonight

What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.

Barcelona is always a club that, at the beginning of the season, wants to win everything. I will try my best to do that with them and I'm sure I will help as much as I can.

King would get the ball off you without you even noticing he's the only defender in England who doesn't hold onto you, and he sometimes still gets the ball off my feet easily.

What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.

You kind of never leave Arsenal. How many comebacks do you make? At one point it will turn out to be a bad move. We all love the first Rocky but I'm not too sure about the last one.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.