Arsene Wenger Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.
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I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.
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Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
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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.
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If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.
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A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.
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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.
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If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%.
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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...
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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.
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I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.
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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.
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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.
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At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.
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I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.
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You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.
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When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.
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I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.
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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.
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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.
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