Jose Mourinho Quotes
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I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal.
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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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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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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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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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Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.
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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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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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You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.
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Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
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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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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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Money does not guarantee success.
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I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.
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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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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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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.
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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 afraid to lose my job, and when you're not afraid, you don't feel any pressures. You are not too worried; you can express yourself in a different way. It makes you better, I think.
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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 more beautiful game in high definition.