167 Quotes by Arsene Wenger

If I left I would feel a deserter – like the guy who walks away from the army once there is a war. I am highly committed to this club. I love what I do here and love the spirit of the team.

If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn’t say, ‘thank you very much’ and turn the other cheek. Only Jesus Christ did that.

I didn’t know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven’t seen a swimming pool.

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

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

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.

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.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I’m a bit bored. I ask, ‘where is the intensity?’

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn’t win any more competitions in that time.