Quotes By Jose Mourinho

Everybody can be smart.

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.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.

So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

I think the best place to work in football is England.

Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

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.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.

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.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.

When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.

I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

Unhappy is a nice word.

The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

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.

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.

But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

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.

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.