Jose Mourinho Quotes

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

Would you phone the president of Ghana?

Four wins in four matches. It could not be better ... the world is fantastic.

No club moves me from Chelsea until Chelsea wants me to move because I want to be where I am loved.

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.

Unhappy is a nice word.

I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That's the kind of guy I want for my daughter as a man.

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.

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

You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win ... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

I want to congratulate again Mike Dean. I think his performance was unbelievable and I think when referees have unbelievable performances, I think it's fair that as managers we give them praise. So fantastic performance.

I think boring is a team that plays at home and can not score a goal.

I know the questions will be around the money, the amount Chelsea had to spend to bring him here but that's the reality of modern football. Big teams only want big players, big players are in big clubs, big clubs want to keep their big players.

If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.

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

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.

Three years without a Premiership title? I don't think I would still be in a job.

The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.

I fell a bit in love with Celtic, because the atmosphere was amazing and the crowd was magnificent, the way they behaved with the Porto fans.

Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.

It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game

If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!

To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.

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

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

Dogs bark and the caravan goes by.

I think it's clearly the result of something that looks like a campaign.

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

If at the end of the season I'm leaving the club, you have the right to come to me and say: 'Jose, you are a liar'

I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.

We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession ... A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.

If I wanted to have an easy job, working with the big protection of what I have already done before, I would have stayed at Porto - beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me.

Fear is not a word in my football documentary.

If Messi is the best on the planet, Ronaldo is the best in the universe.

He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him

The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out.

To me, attacking football happens when Makelele gets the ball and passes it to the central defender who passes it to the right-back who comes forward and judges the situation. If he can do something he passes forward or runs with the ball, if not he gives it back to Makelele who builds the attack again. That is attacking football. In England attacking football is giving the ball to Makelele and having him hit it forward no matter what, even if everybody is marked.

Money does not guarantee success.

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.

I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.

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

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.

In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play. A football match is about two teams playing. I told Big Sam, they need points. To come here the way they did, is that acceptable? Maybe it is, they need points. The only thing I could bring more was Black & Decker - a Black & Decker to destroy the West Ham wall.

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.

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

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

It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

Let slip the dogs of champions.

Everybody can be smart.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of 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.

It's not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.

Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.

People don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much.

For Chelsea, I would turn down every job in the world.

When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off, I wasn't surprised.

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.

If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this

Ranieri? He's right in what he says: I am very demanding of myself and I need to win to be secure about things. That's why I've won so many trophies in my career. He, on the other hand, has the mentality of someone who doesn't need to win and at nearly 70 years old he has won a Supercoppa and another small cup. He's too old to change his mindset.

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

Wenger has been Arsenal's coach for 15 years but he hasn't won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn't won a league title in six years but they continue to keep him as Liverpool's coach. This is not the Italian mentality. To stay here I must continue winning and do well.

As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.

Maybe next season we can race.

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 hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

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.

If you look at revenge we are still winning three one you know, so I don't think it is a question of revenge, is a question of a personal thing

If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.

I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'

If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.

One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.

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

I am prepared. The more pressure there is, the stronger I am. In Portugal, we say the bigger the ship, the stronger the storm. Fortunately for me, I have always been in big ships. FC Porto was a very big ship in Portugal, Chelsea was also a big ship in England and Inter was a great ship in Italy. Now I'm at Real Madrid, which is considered the biggest ship on the planet.

For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.

The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.

Eleven against eleven they never beat us.

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.

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

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 remember the first time I saw him play. It was for a Sporting CP youth team. I told my assistant, 'There goes Van Basten's son.' Ronaldo had great technique. He stood out.

A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.