Arsène Wenger

Of course, today people will laugh at me when I say that, but for me, people with long hair suddenly who played this kind of music was revolutionary and did smoke, dope.

It was inconceivable in my childhood, and that created a lot of interest.

Well, I don't know.

My parents, they wanted me to do well, you know.

I was the big freedom because my parents were very busy.

So at school, I didn't work at the start.

And suddenly I realized I was not too stupid.

And I caught all back what I didn't do at the start and became quite a good student.

I think to be conscious that I go nowhere like that and I refuse to be mediocre.

I don't know exactly why, but always at some stage, I thought I have to take control of my life there.

So they were quite happy, my parents.

But subconsciously, secretly, I always thought if I could spend my life in football, that would be a relief for me because I love to understand how the world works, but I don't want to spend my life in it.

You know, football, when you're a manager, you speak to three people.

In every player is the child.

The child wants to play.

He's completely in the prison.

The teenager, for him, it's all black and white.

Are you stupid or are you a genius?

And the adult is a guy who lives with the internal suffering but has to find a compromise with the external world, you know.

And if he's capable of that, he can find a balanced life.