It’s not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.
Jose MourinhoI intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy. 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. Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.
Jose MourinhoWhen I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...
Jose MourinhoSometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.
Jose MourinhoThere are only two ways for me to leave Chelsea. One way is in June 2010 when I finish my contract and if the club doesn’t give me a new one. It is the end of my contract and I am out. The second way is for Chelsea to sack me. The way of the manager leaving the club by deciding to walk away, no chance! I will never do this to Chelsea supporters.
Jose MourinhoI 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.
Jose MourinhoIf Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!
Jose MourinhoIt's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game
Jose MourinhoI want to congratulate again Mike Dean. I think his performance was unbelievable and I think when referees have unbelievable performances, I think it's fair that as managers we give them praise. So fantastic performance.
Jose MourinhoWe want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession...A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.
Jose MourinhoPeople don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much.
Jose MourinhoWithout emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.
Jose MourinhoI am prepared. The more pressure there is, the stronger I am. In Portugal, we say the bigger the ship, the stronger the storm. Fortunately for me, I have always been in big ships. FC Porto was a very big ship in Portugal, Chelsea was also a big ship in England and Inter was a great ship in Italy. Now I'm at Real Madrid, which is considered the biggest ship on the planet.
Jose MourinhoAnd 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.
Jose MourinhoMy history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.
Jose MourinhoIf at the end of the season I'm leaving the club, you have the right to come to me and say: 'Jose, you are a liar'
Jose MourinhoA player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.
Jose MourinhoIn five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.
Jose MourinhoThe club is much more important than me, the fans are much more important than me so it's not for me. I'm not working for me, I'm working for the club, for the fans. That's the way I look at things.
Jose MourinhoWhen I was at Porto my team also played in the UEFA Cup final against a Scottish side - but it was Celtic. I've never seen such emotional people. It was unbelievable!
Jose MourinhoYes, Manchester United are the best team in England, but you have to ask how good has the Premier League been since I left? If I was at a top club in England I think the title race might have been a lot closer this year.
Jose MourinhoI hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.
Jose MourinhoSo I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.
Jose MourinhoA great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.
Jose MourinhoLook, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.
Jose MourinhoArsenal 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.
Jose MourinhoI remember the first time I saw him play. It was for a Sporting CP youth team. I told my assistant, 'There goes Van Basten's son.' Ronaldo had great technique. He stood out.
Jose MourinhoNo club moves me from Chelsea until Chelsea wants me to move because I want to be where I am loved.
Jose MourinhoWenger has been Arsenal's coach for 15 years but he hasn't won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn't won a league title in six years but they continue to keep him as Liverpool's coach. This is not the Italian mentality. To stay here I must continue winning and do well.
Jose MourinhoThe problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows?
Jose MourinhoPressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football
Jose MourinhoIf I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.
Jose MourinhoAs we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.
Jose MourinhoBrendan's chihuahua doesn't do that. During the week it sleeps, eats and trains a little bit. So I have to say his chihuahua is a privileged one.
Jose MourinhoYou win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.
Jose MourinhoThe 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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