Arsene Wenger Quotes - Page 4

Messi is a Playstation.

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

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.

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?

I know how important it is to have a helping hand.

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.

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.

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.

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

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!

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

I don't think it's because of my eyes, my beautiful eyes. (on Henry staying at Arsenal for the money)

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

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.

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

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

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.

For a while, you could decide when you loan the player out whether he plays against you or not, and I always decided that he could play against us. But I must say I didn't get any protection from the media because when the player I loaned out scored against us, it's 'aaahhh, look at him, stupid...'

If I left I would feel a deserter - like the guy who walks away from the army once there is a war. I am highly committed to this club. I love what I do here and love the spirit of the team.

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.