167 Quotes by Arsene Wenger

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.

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable

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.'

To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

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.

Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football 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.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away