Quotes by Arsene Wenger

About Arsene Wenger:

Arsène Wenger is a French football manager and former player. He has been the manager of Arsenal since 1996, where he has since become the club's longest-serving manager and most successful in terms of major titles won. Football pundits give Wenger credit for his contribution to the revolutionising of football in England in the late 1990s through the introduction of changes in the training and diet of players.
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At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

Arsene Wenger

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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 m...

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

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

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As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.

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If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is, you should do it. But there are not many players in the world who will make a real difference.

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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Author Bio

  • NameArsene Wenger
  • Descriptionfootball manager
  • BornOctober 22, 1949
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionAssociation Football Player; Economist
  • AwardsKnight Of The Legion Of Honour; Officer Of The Order Of The British Empire