Arsene Wenger Quotes - Page 2

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.

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.

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

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

You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.