Top 125 Quotes & Sayings by Arsene Wenger
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French coach Arsene Wenger.
Last updated on September 13, 2024.
My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.
I also think we live in a competitive world, and I love competition.
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.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
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.'
As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.
I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.
I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.
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 think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
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.
As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.
The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.
Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.
Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.
It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
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 think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.
If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is, you should do it. But there are not many players in the world who will make a real difference.
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.
You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.
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.
We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!
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.
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.
Maintain that motivation to go from A to B and to keep your focus on that target without any weakening. That is called tenacity; stamina in your motivation.
At the end of the day, my optimistic personality always takes over.
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
He made the impossible possible.
I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.
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.
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.
At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.
No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.
Work on your strong points because they are what made you.
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.
We don't sign superstars, we make them.
I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.
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.
Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal?
Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away
You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.
When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.
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
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.
When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.
Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.
To achieve great things you have first to believe it.
You weren’t world-class when Arsenal signed you.
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.
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