Arsene Wenger Quotes

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

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.

To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

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

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

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.

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

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.

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.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

We don't sign superstars, we make them.

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.

You weren’t world-class when Arsenal signed you.

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.

No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.

I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.

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.

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

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.

It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.

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.

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

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

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.

You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

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.

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

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

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.

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.

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

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.

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

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.

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

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.

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

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

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.