Arsene Wenger Soccer Quotations

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

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

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

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

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

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

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

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.

I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.

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.

If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.