Mourinho Quotes

Money does not guarantee success. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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

"Jose Mourinho is a big star ... he's cool. The first time he met (my wife) he whispered to her: 'Helena you have only one mission. Feed Zlatan, let him sleep, keep him happy' The guy says what he wants. I like him." ~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Eleven against eleven they never beat us. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona. ~ Gary Neville

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

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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'. ~ Jose Mourinho

Dogs bark and the caravan goes by. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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

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

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

Would you phone the president of Ghana? ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

Maybe next season we can race. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

I don't get what's happening to Jose Mourinho of late. He's lapsing into the kind of Portuguese moroseness you get from staring at the Atlantic horizon and imagining you're the last place in the world, while listening to endless renditions of the fado. His latest line about 'everyone hates us and we don't care' sounds like vintage Joe Kinnear in the great days of the Wimbledon Crazy Gang. ~ Peter Chapman

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

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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

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

In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football. ~ Mario Balotelli

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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 ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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

If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup. ~ Andy Gray

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer. ~ Eamon Dunphy

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

Let slip the dogs of champions. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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

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

Fear is not a word in my football documentary. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium. ~ Johan Cruijff

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho. ~ Julian Sands

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

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

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football. ~ Johnny Giles

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

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

Unhappy is a nice word. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

know what relationship you're getting with Mourinho: a full-on, passionate, whirlwind affair with some unforgettable nights but absolutely no chance of a lasting marriage. One caveat though: Mourinho's always wanted this job. ~ Andy Mitten

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 ~ Jose Mourinho

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' ~ Jose Mourinho

Everybody can be smart. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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

Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done
a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce ... ~ Alvin Martin

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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 ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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

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. ~ Jose Mourinho

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. ~ Jose Mourinho