Thierry Henry

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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"

"I'm not a machine."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"He can become the best player in the Premiership."

"When it's his day, Thierry can score a hat-trick with ease. He's amazing."

"Ronaldinho is a special player, but Thierry Henry is probably technically the most gifted footballer ever to play the beautiful game."