Arsene Wenger Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

Messi is a Playstation.

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

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

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.

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

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.

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. The challenge now is to dominate English football for a long time.

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

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.

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

In England, football is important for everybody.

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

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

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

I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists