Arsene Wenger Quotes

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.

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.

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

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.

To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear.

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

I don't think it's because of my eyes, my beautiful eyes.
(on Henry staying at Arsenal for the money)

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

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

I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.

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.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing ... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

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.

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.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

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.

If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%.

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal?
Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away

In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.

Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

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.

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

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.

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

In England, football is important for everybody.

I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

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 been accused of not taking seriously the FA Cup on Saturday. I have won four times the FA Cup. Who has won it more? Give me one name.

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.

He made the impossible possible.

I know how important it is to have a helping hand.

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.'

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

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.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

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.

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.

I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Work on your strong points because they are what made you.

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable

I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players ... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

I also think we live in a competitive world, and I love competition.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

Messi is a Playstation.

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!