Top 100 Arsene Wenger Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.”

— Arsene Wenger

52. “Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don’t know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.”

— Arsene Wenger

53. “In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.”

— Arsene Wenger

54. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

55. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

56. “When you represent a club it’s about values and qualities, not about passports.”

— Arsene Wenger

57. “Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.”

— Arsene Wenger

58. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

59. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

60. “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.’”

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

62. “You cannot say that you are happy when you don’t win.”

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

64. “It is always a danger when you have a big game ahead, but there is only one way to prepare well for our Champions League game – and that is to do well tomorrow. Therefore, I feel there is a lot at stake for us tomorrow. It is a massive game for us.”

— Arsene Wenger

65. “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?”

— Arsene Wenger

66. “I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.”

— Arsene Wenger

67. “Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.”

— Arsene Wenger

68. “What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.”

— Arsene Wenger

69. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

70. “What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.”

— Arsene Wenger

71. “As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.”

— Arsene Wenger

72. “It’s a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don’t feel as high. It is a different kind of test – can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?”

— Arsene Wenger

73. “Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don’t produce enough English players.”

— Arsene Wenger

74. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

76. “The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.”

— Arsene Wenger

77. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

78. “I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you.”

— Arsene Wenger

79. “We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it’s over it’s over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.”

— Arsene Wenger

80. “In England, football is important for everybody.”

— Arsene Wenger

81. “I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear.”

— Arsene Wenger

82. “The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.”

— Arsene Wenger

83. “Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.”

— Arsene Wenger

84. “I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.”

— Arsene Wenger

85. “I don’t kick dressing room doors, or the cat – or even journalists.”

— Arsene Wenger

86. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

88. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

91. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

92. “I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.”

— Arsene Wenger

93. “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.”

— Arsene Wenger

94. “The background looks like a lot of red cards.”

— Arsene Wenger

95. “I would be much more annoyed if we hadn’t won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.”

— Arsene Wenger

96. “In England you have a good phrase. It is ’to bring the game into disrepute.”

— Arsene Wenger

97. “I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.”

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

100. “If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.”

— Arsene Wenger