Thierry Henry Quotes

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

I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.

Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Paul Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is the one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength, and he is a genuine competitor.

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.

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.

Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference.

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

I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.

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.

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.

You learn from your mistakes.

It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him.

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

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.

I can’t think of a striker in the world who has scored so many important goals, never mind a midfielder.

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.

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.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

People are talking about me more than they talk about Eastenders.

In New York it seems like there's no Monday or Saturday or Sunday. The town is always moving. The vibe is great.

It's not about me, it's about how I can help my team to achieve more. And I do that through scoring goals.

I'm still young and everyday I want to learn more. I feel I am beginning to find myself.

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.

Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

I eat football, I sleep football. I am not mad I am just passionate

It is important for me to feel at home.

What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.

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!

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'.

What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

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.

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.

Everybody knows how much I love Arsenal - I became a fan. And to be out here [in front of the Emirates as a statue] celebrating a goal against Tottenham, there's not much else to say after thatLike I've said before, Once a Gooner, always a Gooner.

I like to score a proper goal, you know - a passing move.

People always talk about Ronaldinho, and everything but I didnt see him today - I saw Henrik Larsson. Two times he came on - he changed the game, that is what killed the game - sometimes you talk about Ronaldinho and Etoo and people like that, you need to talk about the proper footballer who made the difference and that was Henrik Larsson tonight

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.

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.

I am not a cheat and never have been.

I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

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.

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?

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

Arsenal is in my blood as well as my heart. I will always, always, always remember you guys. I said I was going to be a Gooner for life and I did not lie because when you are a Gooner, you will always be a Gooner. This club is in my heart and will remain in my heart forever.

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.

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.