Thierry Henry

Thierry Henry (born 17 August 1977) is a retired French football player who currently works as an assistant manager for the Belgian National Team.

Quotes

• "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

• What I believe is this: Catalunya is not Spain, it is something else and you have to feel it.
  • After more than 18 months in the Catalan capital, Henry has become a firm believer in the Barcelona philosophy.

• You don’t let a guy put his hand on your chest, and put his foot on the ball and look into your eyes and tell you a bedtime story. No. sorry.
• He controlled the ball on his chest, step on it, look, see if someone was in the stands, take a coffee, turn, call his family, no one was answering, left a message, and then thought "Oh, I might cross the ball." He crossed it and they scored.
  • Henry, on the lack of defensive abilities of his team, after losing 2-0.

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.
  

About

• 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 Alan Hansen's column,(13 March 2006).

• With Thierry Henry so many asked for his shirt that the club threatened to start making him pay for ones he gave away!
  • Martin Keown 'Arsenal wanted to charge Thierry Henry for having loads of shirt swaps' (25 October 2014).

• 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 Barcelona chief declares interest in Henry, (20 December 2005)

• He can become the best player in the Premiership.
  • Arsene Wenger Arsenal's Homepage

• When it's his day, Thierry can score a hat-trick with ease. He's amazing.
  • Robert Pires Arsenal's Homepage of Sky Sports (25 May]] [[2006)

• Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game.
  • Zinedine Zidane [1]