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We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football
Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away
Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.
For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'
If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems
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.'
If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.
Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.
Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.
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.
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!
Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.
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...
Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.
People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
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.
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.
If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'Thank you very much, can I turn the other cheek'. Only Jesus Christ did that.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
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.
I have been accused of not taking seriously the FA Cup on Saturday ... I have won four times the FA Cup. Who has won it more? Give me one name.
Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.
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.
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.
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.
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.
As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.
Maintain that motivation to go from A to B and to keep your focus on that target without any weakening. That is called tenacity; stamina in your motivation.
I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.
In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.
I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.
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.
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.
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. The challenge now is to dominate English football for a long time.
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.
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.
Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time.