Jose Mourinho Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.

If Messi is the best in the world, it's only because Cristiano is from another planet.

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.

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.

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.

You don't have to love me. You don't even have to like me, but you will respect me.

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

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

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.

Chelsea are up there with best teams in the world,and let's hope United can join us in quarter-finals.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The club is much more important than me, the fans are much more important than me so it's not for me. I'm not working for me, I'm working for the club, for the fans. That's the way I look at things.

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

When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude.

If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!

Fear is not a word in my football documentary.

Unhappy is a nice word.

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

The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows?

Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that.

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

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

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

Money does not guarantee success.

There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.

Everybody can be smart.

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

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.

Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

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.