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?
THIERRY HENRYI 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!
More Thierry Henry Quotes
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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.
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You learn from your mistakes.
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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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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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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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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’.
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What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.
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I may be French, but I’m playing for Arsenal.
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I can’t think of a striker in the world who has scored so many important goals, never mind a midfielder.
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I can’t stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can’t – I would die.
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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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We all love the first Rocky, but I’m not too sure about the last one.
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When you look at other sports, like golf, the players earn a lot more money without running around.
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Being seen as the best striker in Europe doesn’t spur me on-it’s helping my team to success. That’s my only aim. I’m not a machine.
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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 eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate.
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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.
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Because that’s just the way it is, and don’t sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.
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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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It is important for me to feel at home.
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I am not a cheat and never have been.
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I like to score a proper goal, you know – a passing move.
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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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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.
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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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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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