Arsene Wenger Quotes About Soccer
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What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.
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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.
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I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.
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Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
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A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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We don't sign superstars, we make them.
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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.
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If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.
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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?
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Work on your strong points because they are what made you.
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Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.
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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.
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You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
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I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.
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Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
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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.
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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.
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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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Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.
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Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'
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If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.
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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.
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