Thierry Henry Quotes

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.
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.
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.
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.
I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.
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 may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.
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.
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.
It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him.
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.
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.
So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.
Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
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.
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.
When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.
You learn from your mistakes.

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Thierry Henry
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