Arsene Wenger Quotes
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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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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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It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
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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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Messi is a Playstation.
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We don't sign superstars, we make them.
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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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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 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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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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In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.
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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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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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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'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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As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.
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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...'
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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.
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Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!
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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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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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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.