Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta discusses what he does to cope with the mental issues of being a manager in football
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00:00I love what I do. I love every minute of it. I take it like, these things are going to happen.
00:08If you want to be a coach you're going to lose football matches, you're going to have tough
00:11periods. Most probably you're going to get sacked. It's part of it. When I did my coaching
00:17advice I said, I don't know when but one day it's going to happen. If it doesn't happen,
00:21okay, beautiful. So you have to go through that journey.
00:24You told yourself that this was the way to cope with it.
00:28Well, that's what I tried. Because if not, I'm not going to enjoy it. I really want to,
00:33with the opportunity and the position that I'm in, if I don't enjoy it, I think that would be
00:40crazy. That would be very selfish. That's something I don't want to promote to my
00:43kids or my family. I've been choosing to do this job. So I need to enjoy it.
00:49Losing a match, I hate it. Absolutely hate it. It drives me mad. I really suffer from it.
00:57But it's a way to improve and do things differently. Okay, move on.