Arsene Wenger famous quotes

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

#Night #Scared

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Intelligent #Winning #Games

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Art #Doctors #Four

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

#Quality #Clubs #Passports

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable
-- Arsene Wenger

#Sometimes

To achieve great things you have first to believe it.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Motivational #Believe #Firsts

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

#Soccer #Player #Expression

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

#Soccer #Confidence #Winning

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

#Stupid #Silly #Hard Work

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

#Jobs #Doe #Company

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

#Strong #Fighting #Temptation

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

#Winning

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Winning #Media #Sake

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

#Player #Influence #Coaches

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

#Doe #Looks #World

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Soccer

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

#Football #Art #Dancing

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

#Player #Thinking #Practice

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Football #Thinking #Personality

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

#Thinking #Ice Cream #Vegetables

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Thinking #Aquariums #Training

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

#Jobs #Responsibility #Winning

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Games #League #Champion

In England, football is important for everybody.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Football #Important #England

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Sports #Football #Team

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

#Stupid #Intelligent #People

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

#Player #Messi #World

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Success #Motivation #People

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

#Titles #Gaps #Lasts

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

#Giving Up #Play #Matter

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

#Player #House #Foundation

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Football #Passion #Games

You weren’t world-class when Arsenal signed you.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Class #World #World Class

When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will respond ‘I tried to win football matches.’ He will say: ‘Are you certain that’s all?’ But, well, that’s the story of my life.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Football #Winning #Heaven

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Team #Wrestling #Fighting

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

#Soccer #Caviar #Sausage

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Home #Thinking #Wife

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Clubs

We do not buy superstars. We make them.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Superstar

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?
-- Arsene Wenger

#Balls #Kicking #Arguing

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Soccer #Jobs #Distance

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Reality #Order #Going Out

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Soccer #Real #Character

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.
-- Arsene Wenger

#Children #Confused #Ice Cream

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

#Stupid #Winning #Men

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

#Art #Believe #Target

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

#Football #Moral #Moral Values