José Mourinho quotes

José Mourinho is a renowned Portuguese football manager and former player, celebrated for his tactical acumen and charismatic personality. Widely regarded as one of the most successful managers in football, he has won major trophies in multiple countries, including the Champions League. He is known for his distinctive leadership style and memorable press conferences. Here are 87 of his quotes:

Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war.

José Mourinho

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

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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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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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If I wanted to have an easy job I would have stayed at Porto. Beautiful blue chair, the UEFA Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me.

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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.

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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.

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

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I studied Italian five hours a day for many months to ensure I could communicate with the players, media and fans. [Claudio] Ranieri had been in England for five years and still struggled to say ‘good morning' and ‘good afternoon.

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It's like having a blanket that is too small for the bed. You pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket is made of cashmere!

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

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I was more influenced by Barças philosophy than by any other coach. They were four years of my life absolutely fundamental.

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What position is my wife in? Eighth, at least.

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During the afternoon it rained only in this stadium - our kitman saw it. There must be a micro-climate here. The pitch was like a swimming pool.

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I don't want to be, and it isn't part of my personality. I'm still going to be the same until I was today but with more responsibilities.

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For me, pressure is bird flu. 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.

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Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists. Our pitch is a bit like that. From the top it's a disgrace but the ball rolls at normal speed.

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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.

José Mourinho

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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The style of how we play is very important. But it is omelettes and eggs. No eggs - no omelettes! It depends on the quality of the eggs. In the supermarket you have class one, two or class three eggs and some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem.

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My wife is in Portugal with the dog. The dog is with my wife so the city of London is safe, the big threat is away. [After his Yorkshire Terrier had issues with customs. ].

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