Jose Mourinho Quotes

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

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

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

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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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• 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.

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• The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

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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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• 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.

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

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

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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.

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• I think the best place to work in football is England.

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

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Jose Mourinho (29)

Birth:	26th January, 1963
Nationality:	Portuguese
Profession:	Coach, Football Manager, Spymaster

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