Photoshop Help.

[PaulMacC]

Does anyone know what tools and things you can use to properly extract an image from it's background such as this:
http://www.rotterdamtopsport.nl/nl/images/stories/anprobin_van_persie1.jpg

I've tried 'extract', 'background eraser' and 'magnetic lasso' but I phail at all them

nvm; did it with quick mask.