Jose Mourinho Quotes

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

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

I won't say we have to win. I won't put that pressure. But we can't lose.

I think the best place to work in football is England.

Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe.

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

Maybe next season we can race.

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

He's a specialist in failure.

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

If 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'

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.

Let slip the dogs of champions.

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

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

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.

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.

In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose.

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

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.

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

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

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.

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off, I wasn't surprised.

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

But the most important part of everything is to be happy.

Dogs bark and the caravan goes by.

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

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

I think it's clearly the result of something that looks like a campaign.

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

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!

The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out.

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking. But I also have things to give them.

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

If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.

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

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

Would you phone the president of Ghana?

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

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

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