The latest in our Best Quotes series focuses on Arsenal. Here are some of the most famous quotes about the club.
“I always wanted to play in English football and Arsenal and Highbury IS English football to me.” Dennis Bergkamp
“I liked a fight and always stood up for myself. That’s how I was brought up. Coming from Holloway you learn from the pram to nut people that pick on you.” Charlie George
“When Patrick Vieira came over from AC Milan, he didn’t know a word of English. We gave him accommodation, phone, car & an English teacher. I talked to Patrick in fluent French and before a game I asked in French, can you speak a bit of English to me? Patrick nodded and replied, ‘Tottenham are shit’.” David Dein
“Play for the name on the front of the shirt and they’ll remember the name on the back.” Tony Adams
“It’s one-nil to the Arsenal. That’s the way we like it.” George Allison
“He’s out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.” Arsene Wenger, On Mourinho calling him a “voyeur”
“A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.” Arsene Wenger
“There is no chance of Sol leaving for Arsenal. He is a Spurs fan and there is not a hope in hell of him playing in an Arsenal shirt.” David Buchler, Tottenham Vice-Chairman, 2001
“It’s not impossible to go through a season unbeaten and I can’t see why it’s shocking to say that.” Arsene Wenger, 2 years before the Invincibles completed their unbeaten league season.
“When you start supporting a football club, you don’t support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.” Dennis Bergkamp
