Arsene Wenger
Arsene Wenger
Arsène Wenger, OBEɛʁ]; born 22 October 1949), is a French football manager and former player. He has been the manager of Arsenal since 1996, where he has since become the club's longest-serving manager and most successful in terms of major titles won. Football pundits give Wenger credit for his contribution to the revolutionising of football in England in the late 1990s through the introduction of changes in the training and diet of players...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth22 October 1949
CityStrasbourg, France
CountryFrance
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.
When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.
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.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.
Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.
People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.
It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
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.
I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?
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.
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
In England you have a good phrase. It is 'to bring the game into disrepute.
When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.