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 me, always.

— Arsene Wenger

Arsene Wenger Quotes

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

— Arsene Wenger

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

— Arsene Wenger

It’s like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn’t want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?

— Arsene Wenger

Nobody will finish above us in the league. It wouldn’t surprise me if we were to go unbeaten for the whole of the season.

— Arsene Wenger

I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten – a frightening thought.

— Arsene Wenger

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

— Arsene Wenger

In my job, you expect to suffer. That’s why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I’m used to suffering.

— Arsene Wenger

In England, football is important for everybody.

— Arsene Wenger

Fair play is an English word. It is not a French word, and it has been copied all over the world. Unfortunately, it does not function any more here.

— Arsene Wenger

My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.

— Arsene Wenger

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.

— Arsene Wenger

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.

— Arsene Wenger

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.

— Arsene Wenger

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?

— Arsene Wenger

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.

— Arsene Wenger

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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.

— Arsene Wenger

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear.

— Arsene Wenger

I didn’t know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven’t seen a swimming pool.

— Arsene Wenger

As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.

— Arsene Wenger

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

— Arsene Wenger

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