Arsene Wenger Quotes
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When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.
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It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
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I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.
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If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.
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We don't sign superstars, we make them.
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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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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.
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The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.
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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.
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Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.
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Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.
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At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.
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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.
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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.
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In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.
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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.
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I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.
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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.
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Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
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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.