Quotes from Arsene Wenger

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

No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed.

I don't think it's because of my eyes, my beautiful eyes. (on Henry staying at Arsenal for the money)

To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

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.

I also think we live in a competitive world, and I love competition.

We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.

He made the impossible possible.

In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.

At the end of the day, my optimistic personality always takes over.

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.

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

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

My target is to make the players as rich as possible within the financial constraints of the club. My target is not to give them less money. I'm happy to make them rich.

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.

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

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