Thierry Henry

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• "Next time I'll learn to dive maybe, but I'm not a woman."
  • After the 2006 Champions League final.

• At times we forget that football is a team effort, a team game and not a solo show game. Sometimes we just don't respect the game. I love my game, but sometimes you need to please the people around you also, and pass the ball to them. At times during games we forget about team-mates in better positions while we try and force our way in, rather than pass to players in better positions around the box. That is something I'm thinking about more.
  • "Thierry Henry player profile, Times Online

• You can be ruthless by playing football and one-touch football. Sometimes we get confused between desire and playing football. There is a fine line and sometimes we could pass the ball to each other a bit better. Football is a team effort and sometimes when you're not playing well together you need to go back to basics and play as a team.
  • "Thierry Henry player profile, Times Online

• A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.
  • On the "Show Racism the Red Card" campaign, Show Racism the Red Card website

Attributed

• 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.
  • After being critised over his poor form.
• I would love this place to be my garden.
  • On Arsenal's old stadium.
• I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference.
• 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.
• 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 eat football, I sleep football, I breathe football. I'm not mad, I'm just passionate.
• There's nothing I'm scared of in football.
• Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
  
• (After knocking down a picture of Arsene Wenger in a Nike advert) Sorry Boss!

About

• "The first day that he came into the dressing room, I did not dare to look him in the face. I knew everything that he had done in England."
  • Lionel Messi
• Henry is a beautiful player and has got complete technique, I adore watching him. I respect him very much as a man and as a footballer. He reminds me of myself.
  • Ronaldinho
• I've seen most things in this league in the last 25 years. I haven't seen anything like him. I said at the beginning of the game that he was special, he's more then that, he's irreplaceable.
  • Andy Gray
• And then there is the magnificent Thierry Henry - someone who has blistering pace and is unbelievable when he is finishing at his best.
  • Alan Hansen
• When it's his day, Thierry can score a hat-trick with ease. He's amazing.
  • Robert Pires