Quotes & Sayings About Wenger

Arsenal could have happened, as everybody knows, but I would not do a trial. Who do you think regrets that more - Arsene Wenger or Zlatan? — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Meaningful learning in a community requires both participation and reification to be present and in interplay. Sharing artifacts without engaging in discussions and activities around them impairs the ability to negotiate the meaning of what is being shared. Interacting without producing artifacts makes learning depend on individual interpretation and memory and can limit its depth, extent, and impact. Both participation and reification are necessary. Sometimes one process may dominate the other, or the two processes may not be well integrated. The challenge of this polarity is for communities to successfully cycle between the two. — Etienne Wenger

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

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

If Wenger had strengthened in the window, Arsenal could have been stronger — Tony Cascarino

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

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

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know. — Arsene Wenger

I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought. — Arsene Wenger

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

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

To achieve great things you have first to believe it. — Arsene Wenger

The background looks like a lot of red cards. — Arsene Wenger

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

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

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

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

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

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

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory. — Arsene Wenger

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not Arsene Wenger. We're different. I want to win — Roberto Mancini

When God passed out patience, I was too impatient to wait in line. — Christine Wenger

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

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful — Arsene Wenger

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him. — Arsene Wenger

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable — Arsene Wenger

Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win. — Arsene Wenger

Arsene Wenger is just an unbelievable manager. I think he's a tremendous person, and he is just as good as there is. You can't judge a manager on one game or on one stretch of games. You judge him over time. — Stan Kroenke

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

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

Wenger has been Arsenal's coach for 15 years but he hasn't won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn't won a league title in six years but they continue to keep him as Liverpool's coach. This is not the Italian mentality. To stay here I must continue winning and do well. — Jose Mourinho

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals. — Arsene Wenger

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

We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal! — Arsene Wenger

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

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

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

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

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things. — Arsene Wenger

Tottenham tried to sign me but I held off and came to Arsenal because Arsene Wenger was here. — Emmanuel Petit

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

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

In England, football is important for everybody. — Arsene Wenger

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere. — Arsene Wenger

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. — Arsene Wenger

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. — Arsene Wenger

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

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

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. — Arsene Wenger

Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement. — Dennis Bergkamp

Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done
a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce ... — Alvin Martin

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

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

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together — David Miliband

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. — Arsene Wenger

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal?
Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away — Arsene Wenger

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

My coach confirmed to me my impression that he uses a different measuring stick to evaluate Almunia. For me, this was a huge disappointment. That has forced me to think about my situation. I have to ask myself what is still realistic and possible for me at Arsenal? When Wenger says something like that, it's going to be difficult for me to get back in here. It's very frustrating. When I see the performances on the field, I get angry and I have to clench my fist in my pocket. — Jens Lehmann

In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute. — Arsene Wenger

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

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

I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic. — Arsene Wenger

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent. — Arsene Wenger

No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed. — Arsene Wenger

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

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

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal. — Arsene Wenger

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

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

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

I also think we live in a competitive world, and I love competition. — Arsene Wenger

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

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

To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize ... he's that type of person. — Alex Ferguson

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

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

My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich. — Arsene Wenger

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

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong. — Arsene Wenger

Emirates Stadium should be named after Arsene Wenger — Alan Pardew

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

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. — Arsene Wenger

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

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all. — Arsene Wenger

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

If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it. — Andy Gray

So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz? — Frank Skinner

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

Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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

You weren't world-class when Arsenal signed you. — Arsene Wenger

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

I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential. — Arsene Wenger

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

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