Arsene Wenger Quotes
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A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.
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I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.
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I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.
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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.
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Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away
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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.
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As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
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I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.
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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.
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We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football
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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.
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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?
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We don't sign superstars, we make them.
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I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists
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When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.
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The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.
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For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
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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.
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Messi is a Playstation.
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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.