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.
THIERRY HENRYSometimes in football you have to score goals.
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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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I like to score a proper goal, you know – a passing move.
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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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When I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.
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What I believe is this: Catalunya is not Spain, it is something else and you have to feel it.
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I don’t like to plan anything.
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Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it’s both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more… not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.
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My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.
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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.
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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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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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I would love this place to be my garden. (on Arsenal’s old stadium)
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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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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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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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I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate.
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I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force – never be satisfied with what I’ve done.
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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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I am not a cheat and never have been.
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There’s nothing I’m scared of in football.
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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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People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.
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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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When you look at other sports, like golf, the players earn a lot more money without running around.
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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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