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.

- Thierry Henry

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.

- Thierry Henry

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

- Thierry Henry

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

- Thierry Henry

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.

- 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.

- Thierry Henry

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.

- Thierry Henry

I've followed the NBA religiously since I was a kid, and now because of my boy Tony Parker, I'm a huge Spurs fan.

- Thierry Henry

I am more than proud to be European. I love Europe, I love France, but I have an American mentality, and I don't know why. The way I see things, the way I talk, I'm the kind of person who, if I want to say something, I will say it - sometimes in Europe, it's not always what you need to do.

- Thierry Henry

To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football.

- Thierry Henry

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.

- Thierry Henry

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.

- Thierry Henry

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!

- Thierry Henry

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.

- Thierry Henry

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.

- Thierry Henry

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

- Thierry Henry

People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.

- Thierry Henry

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

- Thierry Henry

I don't like to plan anything.

- Thierry Henry

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?

- Thierry Henry