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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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Jose Mourinho

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Will

Team

" The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I need my time to be lonely. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Jose Mourinho

Differently

Easy

" 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 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. "

" You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time. "

" 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

" Unhappy is a nice word. "

" 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

" For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born. "

" 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. "

" Money does not guarantee success. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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