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.
THIERRY HENRYIt’s difficult to talk about Pele because I didn’t see him.
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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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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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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 may be French, but I’m playing for Arsenal.
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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.
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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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You learn from your mistakes.
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People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.
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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 can’t stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can’t – I would die.
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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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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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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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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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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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When you look at other sports, like golf, the players earn a lot more money without running around.
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I’m still young and everyday I want to learn more. I feel I am beginning to find myself.
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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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What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.
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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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It’s difficult to talk about Pele because I didn’t see him.
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I am not a cheat and never have been.
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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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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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Everybody knows how much I love Arsenal – I became a fan. And to be out here celebrating a goal against Tottenham, there’s not much else to say after thatLike I’ve said before, Once a Gooner, always a Gooner.
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No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.
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