Jose Mourinho Quotes

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

— Jose 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.”

— Jose Mourinho

“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.”

— 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

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

“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

“Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.”

— Jose Mourinho

“Money does not guarantee success.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— 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

“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

“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.”

— Jose Mourinho

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.

— 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

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

— 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

“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

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

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

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

— 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

“A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano ... being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

“Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.”

— 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

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

— 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

“I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.”

— Jose Mourinho

We are on top at the moment but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.

— 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

“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

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

— Jose Mourinho

“The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.”

— Jose Mourinho

“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 was at Porto my team also played in the UEFA Cup final against a Scottish side - but it was Celtic. I've never seen such emotional people. It was unbelievable!”

— Jose Mourinho

“Dogs bark and the caravan goes by.”

— Jose Mourinho

“You are pushed to behave differently here, you don't really have a choice. If you cheat you have no chance of being admired. Even your own supporters will dislike you. So what do you do? Well, the way is not to be stupid, but not to cheat either. If there is a foul, you have to fall. I call it 'helping the referee to make a decision'. That's not cheating.”

— 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

“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

“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

“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

“Brendan's chihuahua doesn't do that. During the week it sleeps, eats and trains a little bit. So I have to say his chihuahua is a privileged one.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

“Would you phone the president of Ghana?”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

“Three years without a Premiership title? I don't think I would still be in a job.”

— Jose Mourinho

But the most important part of everything is to be happy.

— 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