War & Peace Quote by Arsene Wenger

Wenger is talking like a coach who’s spent a lifetime watching people fail in two very different ways: the dramatic collapse and the quiet misunderstanding. The line splits wrongdoing into weakness and ignorance, which sounds simple until you notice the implied worldview behind it. He’s not moralizing for sport; he’s diagnosing performance under pressure.

“Not strong enough to fight temptation” is Wenger’s language of discipline, the thing elite sport turns into a daily ritual. Temptation could be nightlife, ego, shortcuts, doping, a reckless tackle, an ill-judged quote to the press. In football, the margin between “character” and “costly mistake” is often one impulsive second. By framing it as strength, he suggests wrongdoing can be trained against: structure, routines, accountability. That’s the coach’s faith that behavior is coachable.

Then he pivots to the more unsettling category: “they do not know.” This is Wenger the teacher-intellectual, the manager famous for recruiting young, developing players, and absorbing other cultures into a club identity. Ignorance isn’t villainy; it’s a failure of education, guidance, and environment. It also quietly spreads responsibility outward: if someone “does not know,” who failed to teach them? Teammates, staff, institutions, even the culture.

The repetition glitch (“some some”) almost helps; it reads like spoken Wenger, thinking aloud, building a moral taxonomy on the fly. Subtext: judge less, understand more. In a results-obsessed world that loves blame, he’s arguing for two remedies instead: stronger habits and better knowledge.