Arsène Wenger Quotes

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

Gérard [Houllier's] thoughts on the matter echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

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 want to go to the end of my job here. I built this team, I want to deliver with this team and I feel if I left I would have in some way betrayed my own beliefs. It is as simple as that. It was nothing to do with what Real Madrid has done. It was about Arsenal. I have a project here that I started three or four years ago and I want to reach the end of it. I could not leave this team at this stage of their development.

We've been remarkably consistent, haven't lost a game and we have played stylish football. We have entertained people who just love football.

What is unbelievable is that I am in a position where people reproach me for making a profit. The people who lose money – nobody says a word. Reproach the people who lose money. I do business by managing in a safe way in a healthy way and on top of that you reproach me for making money. It looks like we are in a business where the quality is to lose money.

When you are a player, you think, 'Me! Me! Me!' When you are a manager, you think 'You! You! You!'

The penalty decision was Old Traffordish.

I feel Bolton played a cup game today, they were one week late.

If happiness is liking the life one lives, I can say I have been happy, and still am.

I liked the pitch, I liked the referee, I did not like Paul Scholes' tackles.

I'm ready to take the blame for all the problems of English football if that is what he wants.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

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.

You ask 100 people, 99 will say it's very bad and the 100th will be Mark Hughes.