Arsene Wenger Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Arsene Wenger Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players. More pictures »
In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering. More pictures »
What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football. More pictures »
Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable 
English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it. More pictures »
Messi is a Playstation. 
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things. More pictures »
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere. More pictures »
No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed. More pictures »
I believe I do my job the way I have to do it. 
You weren't world-class when Arsenal signed you. 
Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that. More pictures »
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable. More pictures »
As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave. More pictures »
If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing More pictures »
Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away
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In England, football is important for everybody. 
If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'thank you very much' and turn the other cheek. Only Jesus Christ did that. More pictures »
When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent. More pictures »
A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do. 
What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game. More pictures »
One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win. More pictures »
When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation. More pictures »
If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much. More pictures »
When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to complement him rather than change him. More pictures »
As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous. More pictures »
Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score. More pictures »
The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid. More pictures »
We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football More pictures »
We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers. More pictures »
I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear. 
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art. More pictures »
If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages. 
If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from. More pictures »
As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well. More pictures »
Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know. 
I don't think it's because of my eyes, my beautiful eyes. (on Henry staying at Arsenal for the money)
You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint. 
You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is. 
A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.' 
It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous. 
I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists 
If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems 
It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game. 
Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time. 
I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists. 
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. 
Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don't know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am. 
In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute. 
The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break. 
Messi's like a PlayStation. He can take advantage of every mistake we make. He made the impossible possible. He has something exceptional. He has six or seven years in front of him, touchwood that nothing happens to him, and he can reach unbelievable levels. 
My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays. 
You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals. 
The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality. 
He made the impossible possible. 
People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest. 
Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both. 
I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always. 
Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win. 
A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful 
It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time ... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player. 
I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool. 
I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic. 
As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong. 
If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%. 
What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art. 
I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life. 
I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region. 
You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win. 
The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money. 
The background looks like a lot of red cards. 
I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy. 
If I left I would feel a deserter - like the guy who walks away from the army once there is a war. I am highly committed to this club. I love what I do here and love the spirit of the team. 
We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal! 
I also think we live in a competitive world, and I love competition. 
It is always a danger when you have a big game ahead, but there is only one way to prepare well for our Champions League game - and that is to do well tomorrow. Therefore, I feel there is a lot at stake for us tomorrow. It is a massive game for us. 
If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all. 
I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you. 
Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together. 
I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying. 
I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought. 
To achieve great things you have first to believe it. 
Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season. 
I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time. 
Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them. 
When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding. 
For a while, you could decide when you loan the player out whether he plays against you or not, and I always decided that he could play against us. But I must say I didn't get any protection from the media because when the player I loaned out scored against us, it's 'aaahhh, look at him, stupid ... ' 
Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people. 
Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here. 
I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident? 
I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest. 
I know how important it is to have a helping hand. 
Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it. 
I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential. 
For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal. 
Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don't fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured like that, it's not acceptable. 
When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports. 
At a young age winning is not the most important thing ... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence. 
The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football. 
At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.