Arsene Wenger
Arsene Wenger
Arsène Wenger, OBEɛʁ]; born 22 October 1949), 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth22 October 1949
CityStrasbourg, France
CountryFrance
To achieve great things you have first to believe it.
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
Messi is a Playstation.
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.
As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.
Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!
No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.
One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.
Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don't fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured like that, it's not acceptable.
Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.
Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.
If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.