Arsene Wenger Quotes

If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.

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

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.

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

To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

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.

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

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that you know you would not have brought out of yourself. He makes you discover something interesting in your life. If you are living like an animal, what is the point of living? What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

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.

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.

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.'

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...'

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

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.

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

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.

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

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.

If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'Thank you very much, can I turn the other cheek'. Only Jesus Christ did that.

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.

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

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.

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

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!