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" 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. "
Jose Mourinho
Feel
Good
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" Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe. "
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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 need my time to be lonely. "
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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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" 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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" The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine. "
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" There has been evolution in many different areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology... I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite. "
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" 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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" You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time. "
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" Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. "
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" Unhappy is a nice word. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Everybody can be smart. "
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" 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! "
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" Money does not guarantee success. "
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" 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. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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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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" I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently. "
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" In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that. "
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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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" I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects. "
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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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" 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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