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Football Quotes by Arsene Wenger

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Arsene Wenger talks about fixing the team's defense against crosses and high balls, saying they must adapt to stop conceding. He stresses the need to grow youth talent to feed the first squad while keeping player wages within the club’s budget. He also reflects on unbeaten runs and the pressure of staying financially responsible.

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Messi is a Playstation.

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To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

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You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

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I think training of better Youth Coaches is essential.

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You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.

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You weren’t world-class when Arsenal signed you.

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I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

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

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Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

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It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

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Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

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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…

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My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not…

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Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

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We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

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The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I…

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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…

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As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style…

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When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will…

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When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for…

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You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I…

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Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking…

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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…

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Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

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

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In England, football is important for everybody.

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At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

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Nobody is against women in football…the game is changing everyday…life always moves forward

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As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

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If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

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The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

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Work on your strong points because they are what made you.

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I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.

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Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

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Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players…

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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…

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For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

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…

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…

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People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are…

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is…

Your first touch sets you free

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

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