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.

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.

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.

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.

Everybody can be smart.

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.

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.

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

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.