I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.
Interpretation
Playing football brings me joy, despite occasionally annoying my wife.
This quote reflects how certain simple pleasures, like playing football, can bring profound happiness to a person. Thierry Henry highlights the idea that indulging in what we love, even if it causes irritation to those around us, is essential for our own joy and fulfillment.
In practice
Sharing this quote during a sports event to emphasize the joy of playing.
My dad always taught me to never be satisfied: to want more and know that what is done is done. That was his way of seeing the game. You've done it, now move on. People might say, 'Well, when can you enjoy it?' But it worked for me because, in the game, you need to be on your toes.
At the beginning, you are 20 and you can just imagine... don't get me wrong, but having money. Then you realise that it's not only about you and what you are doing but that you have to give back.
I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.
People always talk about Ronaldinho, and everything but I didnt see him today - I saw Henrik Larsson. Two times he came on - he changed the game, that is what killed the game - sometimes you talk about Ronaldinho and Etoo and people like that, you need to talk about the proper footballer who made the difference and that was Henrik Larsson tonight
I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.
When we won the league at Tottenham, they came back 2-2 in the last-minute of the game, and they're celebrating - because they're happy to draw against us, obviously. And I remember saying to Mauricio Tarricco, do you realise we only need a point to be Champions? And they all [were really shocked]. So I said 'Yes. Now we're going to celebrate on your pitch. Bye bye!'
Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.
Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
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