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All Quotes by author - Jose Mourinho

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everybody can be smart. "

" 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. "

" Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. "

" Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. "

" For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born. "

" I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1. "

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

" I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends, and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football, and I can have everything together, and I don't need to give up one to be better than what I am. "

" I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know, but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I give a lot of instruction in training. It's difficult for me to do the same in matches, so I need guys on the pitch to read the game, to understand what we want. "

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

" I have always felt an affinity with Old Trafford; it has hosted some important memories for me in my career, and I have always enjoyed a rapport with the United fans. "

" I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent. "

" 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'm not afraid to lose my job, and when you're not afraid, you don't feel any pressures. You are not too worried; you can express yourself in a different way. It makes you better, I think. "

" I need my time to be lonely. "

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

" In football, I'm not so old. At 52, maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as... you might say an 'old fox.' Nothing scares me; nothing worries me too much. It looks like nothing new can happen for me. "

" In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that. "

" 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. "

" I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal. "

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