Quotes By Thierry Henry

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

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

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't like to plan anything.

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.

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!

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?

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

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.

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

The thing is, don't get me wrong, I still love scoring and I hate to lose but now I see myself more as making players play better. Sometime you do what you have to do and you have to perform, that is still there, but in my mind I am thinking about making the guys around me play better and that is never an easy thing to do.

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

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 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.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

That is something that I always want to do when I arrive somewhere is to know about the culture of the country, about the club and make sure I know what it takes to wear the jersey.

You learn from your mistakes.

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