Top 100 Arsene Wenger Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Arsene Wenger

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2. “To achieve great things you have first to believe it.”

— Arsene Wenger

3. “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

4. “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

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

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

9. “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

10. “Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it’s well done does it become an art.”

— Arsene Wenger

11. “A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.”

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

13. “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

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

— Arsene Wenger

15. “I think we live in a very competitive world, and I love competition.”

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

18. “What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.”

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

20. “Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.”

— Arsene Wenger

21. “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

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

— Arsene Wenger

23. “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

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

— Arsene Wenger

25. “Messi is a Playstation.”

— Arsene Wenger

26. “If you eat caviar every day it’s difficult to return to sausages.”

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

28. “We do not buy superstars. We make them.”

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

30. “Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.”

— Arsene Wenger

31. “Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.”

— Arsene Wenger

32. “Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.”

— Arsene Wenger

33. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

34. “Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.”

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

36. “I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.”

— Arsene Wenger

37. “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

38. “Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.”

— Arsene Wenger

39. “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

40. “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

41. “I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten – a frightening thought.”

— Arsene Wenger

42. “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

43. “The moral values I’ve learnt in my life I’ve learnt through football.”

— Arsene Wenger

44. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

45. “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

46. “I’ve told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.”

— Arsene Wenger

47. “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

48. “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

49. “Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I’m a bit bored. I ask, ‘where is the intensity?’”

— Arsene Wenger

50. “At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.”

— Arsene Wenger