The Gunners, who face a rematch against the Tigers in the fifth round on Saturday, had endured a trophy drought lasting nearly a decade before their 3-2 extra time victory at Wembley, but had the score gone the other way, the Frenchman’s future would have been very different.
"I don’t know if I’d have gone, honestly," he told reporters. “If we had lost it I don’t know what would have happened.
“Usually I respect my contracts and I fight for everything and to say after 17 years [your future] can depend just on one cup final means it is better you don’t go to the final then.
“It would have been a problem if we had not won. But we won.
“It was up in the air and we had to give everything to win that final.”
Wenger also urged the FA not to change the rules of the competition, with the idea being flouted that replays may be scrapped in future years.
“I am quite a bit nervous about changing the rules because I like them now,” he confessed. “I am convinced all of the clubs can compete with the number of games we have to play, so there is no real need for me to change the rules.
“This is the most traditional competition in England, so let’s respect it and keep it as it is.”
Wenger’s side have won the FA Cup in each of the last two seasons and are seeking to become the first club since Blackburn Rovers in 1886 to achieve that feat.
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