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Arsène Wenger
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“Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.”
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Recorded in: In response to Sir Alex Ferguson's jibe that his team weren't deserving league and cup champions — "They are scrappers who rely on belligerence - we are the better team", (May 2002)
“What would I do if Alex wasn't around? I would have no one to keep me on my toes or to fight. So of course I am pleased he changed his mind. I enjoy our rivalry. It is good for Arsenal, good for Manchester United and good for both of us.”
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Recorded in: In response to Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement u-turn, (February 2002)
“I'm ready to take the blame for all the problems of English football if that is what he wants.”
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Recorded in: Interview in reaction to comments made by Sir Alex Ferguson who highlighted the lack of homegrown players at Arsenal, (November 2007)
“He's out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.”
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Recorded in: On José Mourinho, (November 2005)
“Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.”
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Recorded in: On Sir Alex Ferguson, (February 2007)
“No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.”
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Recorded in: On Nicolas Anelka, (July 1999)
“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.”
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Recorded in: On Ryan Giggs, (2009)
“He's like a PlayStation. I think he can take advantage of every mistake you make. Barcelona are a very good side but of course they have Messi who can make the difference at any moment in the game. He is very young but he can achieve a lot. There are not many players who can score four goals like he did. He has six or seven great years ahead of him and he can become unbelievable.”
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Recorded in: On Lionel Messi, (7 April 2010)
“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.”
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Recorded in: About Nani, (December 2010)
“You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.”
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Recorded in: On Paul Scholes, (August 2010)
“We were considering him (Ruud van Nistelrooy) and Francis Jeffers and, in the end, we went for Jeffers.”
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Recorded in: About Francis Jeffers (2001)
“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?”
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Recorded in: José Antonio Reyes, (2007)
“Despite the global warming, England is still not warm enough for him.”
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Recorded in: José Antonio Reyes, (July 2007)
“This guy should never play football again. What is he doing on the football pitch? I've gone along with the idea for a long time that to stop Arsenal, you have to kick Arsenal. I knew that was coming for a long time now.”
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Recorded in: Martin Taylor, who injured Arsenal striker Eduardo. (23 February 2008)
“Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don’t fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured like that, it’s not acceptable.”
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Recorded in: Ryan Shawcross after injuring Aaron Ramsey. (28 February 2010)
“You weren't world class when Arsenal signed you.”
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Recorded in: Patrick Vieira, (2004)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Before the 2002-03 season commenced, (2002)
“I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.”
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Recorded in: On his team's performances (2002)
“We do not buy superstars. We make them.”
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Recorded in: (2007)
“The background looks like a lot of red cards.”
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Recorded in: On Arsenal's redesigned club crest. (2002)
“When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to complement him rather than change him.”
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Recorded in: Detailing his philosophy, (2007)
“If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.”
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Recorded in: Transfers, (2007)
“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.”
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Recorded in: International matches, (2006)
“If I go into a season and I say, ‘For fuck’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.”
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Recorded in: (2008)
“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.”
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Recorded in: (2010)
“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.”
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Recorded in: On Arsenal's summer, (2011)
“Going back in time, looking back is just as scary. […] there’s not as much to come as what has already been lived… The only way to fight time is to not look back too much. If you do, it can make you feel anxious and guilty.”
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Recorded in: On His Anxiety and his relationship with time, (2015)
“In England, football is important for everybody.”
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Recorded in: 22 November 1996
“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.”
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Recorded in: On Arsenal's famous back four, (1997)
“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.”
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Recorded in: 19 April 1997
“Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.”
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Recorded in: 7 April 1999
“When you are a player, you think, 'Me! Me! Me!' When you are a manager, you think 'You! You! You!'”
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Recorded in: 8 February 2002
“My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.”
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Recorded in: 6 February 2004
“Politically, I am for efficiency. Economically first. Until the 1980s the world was divided into two, people were either communist or capitalist. The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable. You cannot ignore individual interests, but I believe the world evolves slowly. The last 30 years have brought a minimum amount of money for everybody in the west, the next step, politically, would be a maximum amount of money earned by everybody.”
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“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.”
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“OK, I’m not against that [spending £100m]. If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is you should do it. But there are not many players in the world who will make a real difference.”
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“At the end of the day, I ask you: who is the most successful team in the world? Brazil. What do they play? Good football. Who won everything last year? Barcelona. What do they play? Lovely football. I am not against being pragmatic because to be pragmatic is to make a good pass, not a bad pass. It is as simple as that. When I see Barcelona, to me it is art.”
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“I told you last week that the race was not over when the bookmakers stopped betting. Surprise, surprise, they have started taking money again.”
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Recorded in: Manchester United 0-1 Arsenal (13 March 1998)
“If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.”
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Recorded in: Arsenal 1-1 Middlesbrough (29 November 1998)
“We wanted tonight to be a shift of power, and to take the trophy back to Highbury.”
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Recorded in: Manchester United 0-1 Arsenal (8 May 2002)
“I was surprised by the resources they find. They are amazing. It doesn't get any worse than losing a Champions League game the way we did, but I felt the way they responded was absolutely magnificent.”
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Recorded in: Arsenal 4-2 Liverpool (9 April 2004)
“We've been remarkably consistent, haven't lost a game and we have played stylish football. We have entertained people who just love football.”
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Recorded in: Tottenham 2-2 Arsenal (25 April 2004)
“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.”
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Recorded in: Crystal Palace 1-1 Arsenal (6 November 2004)
“The speed at which we moved the ball in small spaces and our quality was superb. We played the ball through needles and it was very difficult for Aston Villa.”
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Recorded in: Aston Villa 1-2 Arsenal (1 December 2007)
“The penalty decision was Old Traffordish.”
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Recorded in: Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal (29 August 2009)
“You ask 100 people, 99 will say it's very bad and the 100th will be Mark Hughes.”
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Recorded in: Manchester City 4-2 Arsenal (12 September 2009)
“I liked the pitch, I liked the referee, I did not like Paul Scholes' tackles.”
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Recorded in: Manchester United 2-0 Arsenal (12 March 2011)
“I feel Bolton played a cup game today, they were one week late.”
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Recorded in: Bolton 2-1 Arsenal (24 April 2011)
“You forget what you wrote last September, October, November. You have a little bit of Alzheimer's.”
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Recorded in: Aston Villa 0-0 Arsenal (24 November 2011)
“If happiness is liking the life one lives, I can say I have been happy, and still am.”
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