Top 100 Wenger's Quotes
#1. Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.
Dennis Bergkamp
#2. Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
Arsene Wenger
#3. Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.
Phil Cornwell
#4. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#5. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#6. Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable
Arsene Wenger
#7. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#8. It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?
Arsene Wenger
#9. You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.
Arsene Wenger
#10. At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.
Arsene Wenger
#11. Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.
Arsene Wenger
#12. Tottenham tried to sign me but I held off and came to Arsenal because Arsene Wenger was here.
Emmanuel Petit
#14. If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.
Arsene Wenger
#15. If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing
Arsene Wenger
#16. I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.
Arsene Wenger
#17. If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'thank you very much' and turn the other cheek. Only Jesus Christ did that.
Arsene Wenger
#19. The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.
Arsene Wenger
#20. I know how important it is to have a helping hand.
Arsene Wenger
#21. The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.
Arsene Wenger
#22. It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?
Arsene Wenger
#23. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#24. Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings
John Motson
#26. In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.
Arsene Wenger
#27. 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?
Arsene Wenger
#28. I don't think it's because of my eyes, my beautiful eyes.
(on Henry staying at Arsenal for the money)
Arsene Wenger
#29. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#30. When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.
Arsene Wenger
#31. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#32. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#33. To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize ... he's that type of person.
Alex Ferguson
#34. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#35. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#36. Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
Arsene Wenger
#37. Wenger has been Arsenal's coach for 15 years but he hasn't won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn't won a league title in six years but they continue to keep him as Liverpool's coach. This is not the Italian mentality. To stay here I must continue winning and do well.
Jose Mourinho
#38. Knowledge management will never work
until corporations realize it's not about
how you capture knowledge but
how you create and leverage it.
Etienne Wenger
#39. 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
Arsene Wenger
#40. I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.
Arsene Wenger
#41. Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.
Arsene Wenger
#42. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#43. For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
Arsene Wenger
#44. Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal?
Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away
Arsene Wenger
#45. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#46. When God passed out patience, I was too impatient to wait in line.
Christine Wenger
#47. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#48. 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!
Arsene Wenger
#49. No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.
Arsene Wenger
#50. Arsene Wenger is sitting on the hot chair
Bobby Gould
#51. Ive got nothing against foreign managers, they are very nice people. Apart from Arsene Wenger
Tony Pulis
#52. Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don't fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured like that, it's not acceptable.
Arsene Wenger
#53. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#54. Messi's like a PlayStation. He can take advantage of every mistake we make. He made the impossible possible. He has something exceptional. He has six or seven years in front of him, touchwood that nothing happens to him, and he can reach unbelievable levels.
Arsene Wenger
#55. As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
Arsene Wenger
#56. I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.
Arsene Wenger
#57. 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.'
Arsene Wenger
#58. My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.
Arsene Wenger
#59. Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn't see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.
Arsene Wenger
#60. If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.
Arsene Wenger
#61. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#62. I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.
Arsene Wenger
#63. It is always a danger when you have a big game ahead, but there is only one way to prepare well for our Champions League game - and that is to do well tomorrow. Therefore, I feel there is a lot at stake for us tomorrow. It is a massive game for us.
Arsene Wenger
#64. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#65. Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done
a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce ...
Alvin Martin
#66. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#67. I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.
Arsene Wenger
#68. Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
Arsene Wenger
#69. To achieve great things you have first to believe it.
Arsene Wenger
#70. If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.
Arsene Wenger
#71. Arsene Wenger uses the FA Cup to bleed his youngsters
Alvin Martin
#72. I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.
Arsene Wenger
#73. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#74. Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
Arsene Wenger
#75. If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup.
Andy Gray
#76. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#77. I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear.
Arsene Wenger
#78. You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.
Arsene Wenger
#79. You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.
Arsene Wenger
#80. What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.
Arsene Wenger
#81. Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn't surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season.
Arsene Wenger
#82. At a young age winning is not the most important thing ... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
Arsene Wenger
#83. Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#84. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#85. I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.
Arsene Wenger
#86. Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he's a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can't judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time.
Stan Kroenke
#87. If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
Arsene Wenger
#88. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#89. A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful
Arsene Wenger
#90. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#91. I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.
Arsene Wenger
#92. So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?
Frank Skinner
#93. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#94. 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.
Arsene Wenger
#95. I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
Arsene Wenger
#96. If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.
Andy Gray
#97. Work on your strong points because they are what made you.
Arsene Wenger
#98. You weren't world-class when Arsenal signed you.
Arsene Wenger
#99. It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
Arsene Wenger
#100. 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.
Arsene Wenger
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