The moment I’ve got a ball at my feet, I’m happy.
THIERRY HENRYIn New York it seems like there’s no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.
More Thierry Henry Quotes
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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 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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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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Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
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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 may be French, but I’m playing for Arsenal.
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I’ll never forget the club or him I don’t see Arsenal without Arsene Wenger.
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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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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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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 can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I’d want to win them all! That’s not being greedy, it’s just a natural thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.
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It’s difficult to talk about Pele because I didn’t see him.
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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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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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When I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.
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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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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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I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate.
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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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