Jose Mourinho Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.”
-- Jose MourinhoSource : "Mourinho takes pressure off stars". www.cnn.com. March 6, 2006.
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“Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.”
-- Jose MourinhoSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Chelsea are up there with best teams in the world,and let's hope United can join us in quarter-finals.”
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“If Messi is the best in the world, it's only because Cristiano is from another planet.”
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“The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.”
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“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.”
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“I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.”
-- Jose MourinhoSource : "Antonio Conte vs Jose Mourinho - how did their first Chelsea press conferences compare?" by Jim Daly, www.mirror.co.uk. July 14, 2016.
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“Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.”
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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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“If Messi is the best on the planet, Ronaldo is the best in the universe.”
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“Ten years ago I also had a very difficult decision to make when we had (Carlo) Cudicini giving fantastic performances in Chelsea’s goal for many years. I had in my hands a 22-year-old goalkeeper I thought could be in Chelsea’s goals for years and years and years and this situation is quite similar.”
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“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.”
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“The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.”
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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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“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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“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 MourinhoSource : "Manchester United's José Mourinho: no longer the bright young iconoclast" by Jonathan Wilson, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2016.
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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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“Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.”
-- Jose MourinhoSource : "Mourinho in his own words" by Chris Charles, news.bbc.co.uk. September 20, 2007.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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“The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.”
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“Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.”
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“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.”
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“I intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy. We have top players and, sorry if I'm arrogant, we have a top manager. 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. Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.”
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“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'.”
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“Instead of speaking about Real Madrid, Mr Wenger should speak about Arsenal and explain how he lost 2-0 against a team in the Champions League for the first time [Braga]. The history about the young kids is getting old now. Sagna, Clichy, Walcott, Fabregas, Song, Nasri, Van Persie, Arshavin are not kids. They are all top players.”
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