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.
THIERRY HENRYBeing 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.
More Thierry Henry Quotes
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I may be French, but I’m playing for Arsenal.
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We all love the first Rocky, but I’m not too sure about the last one.
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Sometimes 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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When you look at other sports, like golf, the players earn a lot more money without running around.
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I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate.
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I like to score a proper goal, you know – a passing move.
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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 would love this place to be my garden. (on Arsenal’s old stadium)
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Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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It’s not about me, it’s about how I can help my team to achieve more. And I do that through scoring goals.
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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 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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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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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’ll never forget the club or him I don’t see Arsenal without Arsene Wenger.
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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 stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can’t – I would die.
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I don’t like to plan anything.
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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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