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" 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. "

Jose Mourinho

Career

Important

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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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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine. "

" 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. "

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

Jose Mourinho

Differently

Easy

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Jose Mourinho

Football

High

" 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. "

Jose Mourinho

Game

Need

" 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. "

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

" 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. "