41) “I lived for two years in Japan and it was the best diet I ever had. The whole way of life there is linked to health. 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.”
42) “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, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win.”
43) “What’s really dreadful is the diet in Britain. The whole day you drink tea with milk and coffee with milk and cakes. If you had a fantasy world of what you shouldn’t eat in sport, it’s what you eat here.”
44) “If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.”
45) [On Arsenal’s recruitment policy] “If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.”
46) “I don’t kick dressing room doors or the cat or even football journalists.”
47) “At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.”
48) “Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.”
49) “You have to be a masochist to be an international manager.”
50) “For me, when you change more than three players in a team, you always take a technical risk because you change the deep structure of the team and the deep balance of the team, mentally and technically.”
51) “We do not buy superstars. We make them.”