"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."

"With Thierry Henry so many asked for his shirt that the club threatened to start making him pay for ones he gave away!"

"And then there is the magnificent Thierry Henry - someone who has blistering pace and is unbelievable when he is finishing at his best."

"Sometimes in football you have to score goals."

"There's nothing I'm scared of in football."

"It's not about me, it's about how I can help my team to achieve more. And I do that through scoring goals."

"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."

"I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference."

"I would love this place to be my garden."

"I'm not a machine."

"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.{{cite web"

"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."

"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."

"What I believe is this: Catalunya is not Spain, it is something else and you have to feel it."

"A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism."

"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."

"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."

"Next time I'll learn to dive maybe, but I'm not a woman."

"Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me."

"If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments."

"My relations with Korchnoi depend on whether he has slept well. If he had bad dreams, he speaks a lot of rubbish."

"People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000."

"Even a dickhead would do a better job than Ilyumzhinov. The chaos in the chess world is caused by “leaders” who are unable to do their job properly."

"I haven't been like, "Is there a sword in that movie? All right, I'll do it!""

"Roger hasn't even started to use a lot of his game."

"Roger is like a good red wine, he's getting better with age...I think his big years will be when he is 26, 27, 28."

"Today I was playing my best tennis, trying lots of different things, but nothing worked. When you're playing like that and he still comes up with all those great shots you really have to wonder if he's even from the same planet."

"I am so proud to have him around. It is very pity that I am not able to play with Pete Sampras, but it's okay; I can see Federer on the tour. I could tell my grandson someday that I have competed against the greatest player on the planet."

"He is the best man in the game, on and off the court, and he has a great personality. I enjoy so much having opportunities to compete against him."

"Maybe I could win more championships and prize money if Federer was not in the same age with me, but you have to know that there is something money can not buy—that's playing against Federer."

"He is capable of hitting shots which other players don't even think about trying. He has so many skills."

"Maybe Roger Federer will rescue tennis. He plays like we did in the past."

"I'm not sure if he has any weakness in his repertoire."

"I thought Ellsworth Vines and Don Budge were pretty good. And Gonzalez and Hoad could play a bit, too, but I have never seen anyone play the game better than Federer. He serves well and has a great half-volley. I've never known anyone who can do as many things on a court as he can."

"Roger is a complete player. What he has, and it's not luck, is the ability to change his game slightly as to what his opponent's doing to him."

"Roger Federer is the most talented tennis player I have ever seen. He has the capacity to become the greatest in history."

"I'd like to be in his shoes for one day to know what it feels like to play that way."

"He put tennis, the bar very high—very high. It's incredible what kind of game he can play."

"He is on his way to becoming possibly the greatest of all time. But he's still human."

"He hasn't changed a bit. He hasn't been arrogant in the locker room. He never is. That's great to see someone that does it with class. He doesn't intentionally get in anyone's face. He doesn't put people down."

"[In the modern game], you're either a clay court specialist, a grass court specialist or a hard court specialist … or you're Roger Federer."

"I think there's—he's the main guy and then there's probably four or five of us that are—I don't know. Maybe we need to do just a tag team effort or something, join forces, you know, like Power Rangers or something."

"He's a real person. He's not an enigma. Off the court he's not trying to be somebody. If you met him at McDonald's and you didn't know who he was, you would have no idea that he's one of the best athletes in the world."

"There's probably not a department in his game that couldn't be considered the best in that department. You watch him play Hewitt and everybody marvels at Hewitt's speed, as well as myself. And you start to realize, `Is it possible Federer even moves better?' Then you watch him play Andy [Roddick], and you go, `Andy has a big forehand. Is it possible Federer's forehand is the best in the game?' You watch him at the net, you watch him serve-volley somebody that doesn't return so well and you put him up there with the best in every department. You see him play from the ground against those that play from the ground for a living, and argue he does it better than anybody."

"He hits that short chip, moves you forward, moves you back. He uses your pace against you. If you take pace off, so that he can't use your pace, he can step around and hurt you with the forehand. Just the amount of options he has to get around any particular stage of the match where maybe something's out of sync is—seems to be endless. His success out there is just a mere reflection of all the things that he can do."

"He's the best I've ever played against. There's nowhere to go. There's nothing to do except hit fairways, hit greens and make putts. Every shot has that sort of urgency on it. I've played a lot of them [other players], so many years; there's a safety zone, there's a place to get to, there's something to focus on, there's a way. Anything you try to do, he potentially has an answer for and it's just a function of when he starts pulling the triggers necessary to get you to change to that decision."