Quotes from Arsene Wenger


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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.


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


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.


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.


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


Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.


The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.


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


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


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


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.


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


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


I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.


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.


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.


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


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


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.


He made the impossible possible.