Arsene Wenger Quotes

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.

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

To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

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

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

Work on your strong points because they are what made you.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.

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.

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

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.'

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

We don't sign superstars, we make them.

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

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

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

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