Arsène Wenger

“We do not buy superstars. We make them.”

“I tried to watch the Tottenham match on television in my hotel yesterday, but I fell asleep.”

“Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.”

“When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.”

“A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.”

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

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

“I am not a magician; I am a football coach.”

“To remain unbeaten in a championship like the English championship now is really unbelievable.”

“I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.”

“You cannot be a coach if you hate people.”

“A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you, I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'”

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

“I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you.”

“One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight... because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser.”

“The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy.”

“What is believable is that you can turn it around. In football, and in life, you can never give up.”