Arsene Wenger quotes

I cannot classify the moments of happiness and of sadness, but every defeat is a scar in your heart that you never forget.
- Arsene Wenger

I don’t look at the passport of people; I look at their quality and their attitude.
- Arsene Wenger

We do not buy superstars. We make them.
- Arsene Wenger

Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it’s well done does it become an art.
- 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

Religiously, it is said that God created man. I am only a guide. I allow others to express what they have in them. I have not created anything. I am a facilitator of what is beautiful in man.
- Arsene Wenger

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

I am not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.
- 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

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

I’m not a witch doctor; I’m just a football coach.
- Arsene Wenger

Don’t be scared to be ambitious. It’s not a humiliation to have a high target and to fail. For me, the real humiliation is to have a target and not to give everything to reach it.
- Arsene Wenger

I believe [team spirit] is a little bit like a flower. You have to take care of it and look after it every day, or else it will slowly die. But as well, you can make the flower bigger, better and prettier if you care for it.
- Arsene Wenger

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

If you eat caviar every day it’s difficult to return to sausages.
- Arsene Wenger

[Winning] 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

What is unbelievable is that I am in a position where people reproach me for making a profit. The people who lose money – nobody says a word.
- Arsene Wenger

English players are 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

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

It’s silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
- 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

If you have a child who is a good musician, what is your first reaction? It is to put them into a good music school, not in an average one. So why should that not happen in football?
- Arsene Wenger

You are responsible for the motivation of all the people around you.
- Arsene Wenger

We live a society where everybody knows everything and it looks like it is a shame to say I don’t know.
- Arsene Wenger

They (Chelsea) are a financially doped club. They have enhancement of performances through financial resources which are unlimited. It puts pressure on the market that is not very healthy.
- Arsene Wenger