Jose Mourinho Quotes
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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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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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I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal.
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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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Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.
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And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
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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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When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.
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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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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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Money does not guarantee success.
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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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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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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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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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Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
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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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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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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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The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.
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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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Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.
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In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.