Thierry Henry Quotes

Many times after a game, I get the feeling that I have not done enough, I should have done better, of course there is room for improvement.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was lacking and that I should have worked harder at it when I was younger. As I sang and sang, I improved.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

I'm never happy about anything, playing-wise. I always think there's things I messed up on, things I should've done differently that could've, A, made us win, or B, made the win easier.

When there are things I see on tape that I think I can get better at, it frustrates me.

You know when you've had a good game, and you know when you could have done better.

Personally, I take it really seriously and it bothers me when I don't play well.

When I look back I either feel I did this mistake while shooting or writing. Eventually you try and make sure you do not repeat the same mistake with your next film. I always feel I could have made the film better.

After games, you think about the play you missed.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Almost every day I wrap up my two-hour live broadcast and I say to myself as I'm driving home, 'I wish I would've done this' or 'We really should have gone live longer with this segment.'

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

I am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, 'Oh, I could have done that a little bit better,' or, 'I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.'

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.

Where I Was Wrong

I sit down with my coach to watch past performances. But I can be very critical. I don't watch myself very often - it makes me cringe!

All I can say is I did the best I could, and I didn't do well enough on many occasions.

You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.