Quote

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.

Arsene Wenger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arsene Wenger
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 22
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Coach
Economist
Engineer
Straßburg
Arsène Charles Ernest Wenger
Best
Leave
Always
Media
Worst
Manager
Imagine
Managers
Winning
Season
Lost
Seasons
Problem
Sake
Anything
Already

More quotes by Arsene Wenger

Image
It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.
Arsene Wenger
Image
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.
Arsene Wenger
Image
Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don't know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.
Arsene Wenger
Image
I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.
Arsene Wenger
Image
I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.
Arsene Wenger
Image
If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.
Arsene Wenger
Image
In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.
Arsene Wenger
Image
As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
Arsene Wenger
Image
I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.
Arsene Wenger
Image
Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away
Arsene Wenger
Image
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.
Arsene Wenger
Image
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
Image
You weren’t world-class when Arsenal signed you.
Arsene Wenger
Image
Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.
Arsene Wenger
Image
Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
Arsene Wenger
Image
Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.
Arsene Wenger
Image
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.
Arsene Wenger
Image
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
Image
I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.
Arsene Wenger
Image
I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.
Arsene Wenger