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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Jose Mourinho

Way

Manager

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I need my time to be lonely. "

" 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. "

" Unhappy is a nice word. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started. "

Jose Mourinho

Started

Mind

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" Everybody can be smart. "

Jose Mourinho

Smart

Everybody

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

" 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. "

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

Jose Mourinho

Football

High

" 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. "