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.
THIERRY HENRYIf 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.
More Thierry Henry Quotes
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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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I am not a cheat and never have been.
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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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My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.
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The moment I’ve got a ball at my feet, I’m happy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 would love this place to be my garden. (on Arsenal’s old stadium)
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