Arsène Wenger

Everything was done with your body and the horses.

No tractors.

The tractors arrived when I was 14, 62, 63.

Wow.

So in my young childhood, you were respected when you were strong and when you were hardworking physically, you know.

And that's where I learned effort.

It was a little bistro where the farmers coming home from the fields had a beer on Sunday after the church for the rest of the week.

At night, people after work came in to have a beer and talk about football, you know, because we had the headquarters of the local football club.

Incidentally, the team was terrible.

But that's why maybe the meaning of my life is football, because at a young age, I heard only talk about that.

Of course.

I learned how to serve in the bistro, be it cigarettes, food.

And it remained with me because when I go in a restaurant, I look at the waiters and I can tell you straight away who is good and who is less good.

No, that's why I wouldn't advise anybody to open a bistro and have children because at the time there was no family life because the bistro was open every day of the year.

It closed only one day from four o'clock in the afternoon until midnight.

That was on Christmas because the village was dominated by religion.

So that was no holiday for them.

We went every day.

And after we went to school, we had to confess every week.

Honestly, sometimes I learned to lie as well because I didn't always remember what I did wrong.