Quotes by Jose Mourinho

About Jose Mourinho:

José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix is a Portuguese football manager and former football player, who is the current manager of English club Chelsea.
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I think the best place to work in football is England.

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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.

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

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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

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

Jose Mourinho

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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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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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.

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Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameJose Mourinho
  • DescriptionPortuguese football manager and former football player
  • AliasesThe Special One
  • BornJanuary 26, 1963
  • CountryPortugal
  • ProfessionAssociation Football Manager; Association Football Player