Top 100 Quotes About Jose Mourinho: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Jose Mourinho

#1. The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

Johnny Giles

#2. When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho.

Julian Sands

#3. Jose Mourinho is a big star ... he's cool.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#4. The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Gary Neville

#5. "Jose Mourinho is a big star ... he's cool. The first time he met (my wife) he whispered to her: 'Helena you have only one mission. Feed Zlatan, let him sleep, keep him happy' The guy says what he wants. I like him."

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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

Jose Mourinho

#7. Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.

Jose Mourinho

#8. 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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#9. Would you phone the president of Ghana?

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#10. Four wins in four matches. It could not be better ... the world is fantastic.

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

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#12. You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win ... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.

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#13. I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players.

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#14. I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.

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#15. The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows?

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#16. It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.

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

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#18. No club moves me from Chelsea until Chelsea wants me to move because I want to be where I am loved.

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#19. Brendan'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.

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#20. I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That's the kind of guy I want for my daughter as a man.

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#21. Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.

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#22. To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.

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

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#24. 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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#25. My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

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#26. It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game

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#27. Without 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.

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#28. Fear is not a word in my football documentary.

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#29. The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.

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#30. 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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#31. The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.

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#32. Maybe next season we can race.

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#33. I think boring is a team that plays at home and can not score a goal.

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#34. Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that.

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#35. 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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#36. 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.

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#37. People don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much.

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#38. Let slip the dogs of champions.

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#39. You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

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#40. I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.

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

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#43. 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.

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#44. There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.

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#45. Dogs bark and the caravan goes by.

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#46. 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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#47. The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

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#48. I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.

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#49. Yes, 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.

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#50. If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.

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#51. 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.

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#52. For Chelsea, I would turn down every job in the world.

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#53. It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm, and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket I have is made of cashmere. So it's good.

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#54. If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.

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#55. We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.

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

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#57. Three years without a Premiership title? I don't think I would still be in a job.

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#58. Unhappy is a nice word.

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#59. Chelsea are up there with best teams in the world,and let's hope United can join us in quarter-finals.

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#60. I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.

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#61. I 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.

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#62. He is the best. The best in the world, yes. Probably the best ever. I saw Maradona a couple of times. I never saw Pele. But Cristiano is amazing. This man is the best ... Cristiano is a goals machine. He is an incredible player. He is like Zidane, there will never be another Ronaldo.

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#63. 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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#64. If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.

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

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#66. We 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.

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#67. If 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!

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#68. I 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.

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#69. Eleven against eleven they never beat us.

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#70. A 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.

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#71. He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him

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#72. Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football

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#73. My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.

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

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

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#76. 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.

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#77. 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.

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#78. I fell a bit in love with Celtic, because the atmosphere was amazing and the crowd was magnificent, the way they behaved with the Porto fans.

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#79. When 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!

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#80. Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism.

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#81. 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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#82. If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this

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#83. For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.

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#84. 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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#85. When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude,

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#86. Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'

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#87. The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.

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#88. If you look at revenge we are still winning three one you know, so I don't think it is a question of revenge, is a question of a personal thing

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#89. We are on top at the moment but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.

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#90. 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.

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#91. One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.

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