Jose Mourinho's Quotes

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.