Arsene Wenger Quotes

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d'Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don't know what will happen. This pressure is inside you - you always have it.

I had a lot of pressure in my career: when you play at World Cup or Champions League final, there is pressure on your shoulders.

I think preparing every week like it's the most important game in the world makes things a little easier once you get in situations where a lot more people are watching and it might be a lot more important for people outside of the building.

People talk about pressure in football, but I don't think pressure should always affect you in a bad way. I love games under pressure.

You can train to be ready for the nerves, and we simulate it all the time, but it's never the same when it actually matters.

For me, I do better in Grand Slams. I like when there's more people watching.

What goes through my head when I'm going to take a game-winning shot is ... I better make it. Don't be afraid of the moment.

I used to get the most anxiety before shows because I really was never prepared.

Big game, under the lights - these are the games you live for.

Pressure, to me, was creating a 'Star Wars' film, then sitting alone in a theater with George Lucas and showing it to him, the guy that created the word 'Wookiee' and R2-D2. That was pressure.

At Juve you were first or you were nothing. If we went out of the Champions League it was a tragedy. I saw team-mates who did not eat for a week.

In football, the Champions league semi-final does not allow you to relax.

When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

You will not be able to tell that they are capable of greatness until you provide them with a packed house, a 3-and-2 count and the game is on the line.

Great performers welcome pressure.

I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more prepared I am, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure.

Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.

Every game is huge and every game will count when it's all said and done.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

There was huge pressure, especially before the big games. Not many people believed in us, but we believed in ourselves. We wanted to do something good and we did.

I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

You've got to have some fun before games or you make the season too long. We don't start work until seven o'clock. If you're game-ready at three, it's not good for you. This is the only way I know how to do it.