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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.

Thierry Henry

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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Game Judgement See Sports Yourself
I may be French, but I’m playing for Arsenal.
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Identity Myself Play
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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Deal Honesty Myself Play Reality Sports
I don’t like to plan anything.
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Character Myself One Liner Planning
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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End Myself Play Sports Try
Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
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Goal Score Yourself
My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.
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Father Myself Satisfaction Teaching
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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End Generosity Mercy Price Yourself
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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Change Game Goodness Intelligence People Sports
The moment I’ve got a ball at my feet, I’m happy.
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Happiness Moments Myself Sports
People are talking about me more than they talk about Eastenders.
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Fame Myself People Talk
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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Beginning Imagination Money Sports
No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.
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Dedication Myself Stop
I can’t stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can’t – I would die.
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Death Myself Sports Stay Wait
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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Demand Enough Father Himself Sports Time
When I was 20 or 21, I didn’t… I won’t say care about anything, but you’re like in your own world – you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.
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Care Family Kind Sports Thinking World Yourself
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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Lying Quite Right Simplicity Wrong
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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Celebration Dedication Fans Goal Love Myself
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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Body Game Need Oneself Yourself
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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Game Inspirational Motivational Try Young
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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Easy Himself Yourself
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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Best Help Myself See Success Team
There’s nothing I’m scared of in football.
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Myself Scare Sports
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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Beginning Imagination Money Sports
I’m obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.
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History Ideas Myself
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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Difficult Hard See Yourself
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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Best Himself Myself Play See Team Thinking

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