Best 103 quotes of Arsene Wenger on MyQuotes

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

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

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.'

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

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

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.

As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous.

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

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.

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.

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.

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

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.

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...'

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

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

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.

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

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...

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?

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

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.

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

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.

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.

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

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

I don't think it's because of my eyes, my beautiful eyes.  (on Henry staying at Arsenal for the money)

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

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 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.

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

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.

If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

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

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

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

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 know how important it is to have a helping hand.

I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

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

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.

In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering.

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

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.