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" The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20. "
Jose Mourinho
Way
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" You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time. "
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" In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Interview
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" I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects. "
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Arrive
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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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" 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. "
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" I need my time to be lonely. "
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Time
Lonely
My Time
" 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. "
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Me
Important
" But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups. "
Jose Mourinho
Think
Normal
Success
" 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. "
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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. "
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Me
" 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. "
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Give
Good
" 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. "
Jose Mourinho
Time
Will
Team
" 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. "
Jose Mourinho
Positive
Meetings
Yourself
" When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started. "
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Started
Mind
Go
" When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football. "
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See
Work
Think
" In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents. "
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Five
Team
Where
" I remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in other stadiums. "
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Remember
Old
Nice
" 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. "
Jose Mourinho
Father
Good
Game
" Everybody can be smart. "
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Smart
Everybody
" 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. "
Jose Mourinho
Opinions
Influence
Feelings
" 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. "
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Football
Experience
Need
" The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters. "
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Cannot
We Cannot
Only
" I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently. "
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Differently
Follow
Easy
" 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. "
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Life
I Am
Family
" I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal. "
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Against
Play
Personal
" 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. "
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Success
Bad
Football
" For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born. "
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Age
You
Real
" Well, uh, I don't know another way than to work at the top level, which is what I do every day. "
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Work
Day
Every Day