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" 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. "

Jose Mourinho

Football

Experience

Need

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Jose Mourinho

Started

Mind

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

" 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 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 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. "

" Everybody can be smart. "

Jose Mourinho

Smart

Everybody

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

" 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. "

Jose Mourinho

Career

Important

" 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. "

" Unhappy is a nice word. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe. "

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

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

" 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

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

" I need my time to be lonely. "

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

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

" 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. "