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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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" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not afraid to lose my job, and when you're not afraid, you don't feel any pressures. You are not too worried; you can express yourself in a different way. It makes you better, I think. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. "

" 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. "

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

" When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "