I can’t stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can’t – I would die.
THIERRY HENRYSometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience.When I was young I wasn’t scared about anything.
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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?
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And I don’t really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.
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I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference.
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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.
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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.
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It was tough at the time but when I was younger, my Dad. I would say my Dad, because without him I wouldn’t have been here. I mean it was tough for me because he was really demanding. With him, it was never enough, you know, anything I did was never enough.
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I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn’t even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!
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When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.
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Ledley 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.
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At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine… don’t get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it’s not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.
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In New York it seems like there’s no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.
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I am not a cheat and never have been.
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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.
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I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate.
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What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.
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When I was 20 or 21, I didn’t… I won’t say care about anything, but you’re like in your own world – you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.
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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.
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You learn from your mistakes.
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There’s nothing I’m scared of in football.
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I don’t like to plan anything.
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Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
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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.
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A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.
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That’s the way I’ve been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don’t have to think about them any more.
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We all love the first Rocky, but I’m not too sure about the last one.
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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.
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