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.
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
Messi is a Playstation.
I’ve told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.
I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.
Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.
To achieve great things, you first have to believe it.
When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.
Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.
A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.
It’s silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
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.
When you represent a club it’s about values and qualities, not about passports.
At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.
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.
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.
What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.
Football is an art, like dancing is an art – but only when it’s well done does it become an art.
We do not buy superstars. We make them.