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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20. "

" 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. "

" I need my time to be lonely. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups. "

" The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Unhappy is a nice word. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "