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" Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. "
Jose Mourinho
Game
Football
Intelligence
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" 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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" 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. "
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" In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents. "
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" The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession. "
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" The period before the game can be important to influence opinions, characters, personalities, feelings, and, of course, I use that to touch my players, to touch opponents, to touch supporters. "
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" So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked. "
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Ups And Downs
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" 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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" The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20. "
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" 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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" I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life. "
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" Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. "
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" 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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Love
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" I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal. "
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Play
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" 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. "
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You
" I remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in other stadiums. "
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Remember
Old
Nice
" Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one. "
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Arrogant
Special
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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You
Strong
" Unhappy is a nice word. "
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Unhappy
Word
Nice
" 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. "
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" I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects. "
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" 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. "
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Know
" When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football. "
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" The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that. "
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Selfish
World
" 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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" 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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" You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time. "
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Time
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" 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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Game
" I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies. "
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You
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