Jose Mourinho Quotes
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I remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in other stadiums.
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When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.
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The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.
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I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.
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At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.
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Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.
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I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know, but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London.
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When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.
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Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
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The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
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Money does not guarantee success.
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Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.
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The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.
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Well, uh, I don't know another way than to work at the top level, which is what I do every day.
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I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.
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I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends, and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football, and I can have everything together, and I don't need to give up one to be better than what I am.
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Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.
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I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.
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So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.
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I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.
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There has been evolution in many different areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology... I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.
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In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.
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In football, I'm not so old. At 52, maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as... you might say an 'old fox.' Nothing scares me; nothing worries me too much. It looks like nothing new can happen for me.
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The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.