Quotes By Jose Mourinho

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

Unhappy is a nice word.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

Money does not guarantee success.

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

Everybody can be smart.

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.