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" 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. "

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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. "

Jose Mourinho

Positive

Meetings

Yourself

" 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 remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in other stadiums. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Jose Mourinho

Way

Manager

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

Jose Mourinho

Started

Mind

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

" Well, uh, I don't know another way than to work at the top level, which is what I do every day. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Jose Mourinho

Two

Way

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

" Once, players came to football expecting to be wealthy when they retired. Now, they expect to be wealthy before they've played their first game! "

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

" Everybody can be smart. "

Jose Mourinho

Smart

Everybody

" Money does not guarantee success. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "