Jose Mourinho Quotes

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

— Jose Mourinho

“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.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

“Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

“I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

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.

— Jose Mourinho

Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.

— Jose Mourinho

“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.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

“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 Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

“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'.”

— Jose Mourinho

“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.”

— Jose Mourinho

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.

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

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.

— Jose Mourinho

“If at the end of the season I'm leaving the club, you have the right to come to me and say: 'Jose, you are a liar'”

— Jose Mourinho

“It gave the title to Manchester City - it's as simple as that.”

— Jose Mourinho

“It's a pity we can't play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game”

— Jose Mourinho

“Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.”

— Jose Mourinho

Wenger has been Arsenal's coach for 15 years but he hasn't won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn't won a league title in six years but they continue to keep him as Liverpool's coach. This is not the Italian mentality. To stay here I must continue winning and do well.

— Jose Mourinho

“Eleven against eleven they never beat us.”

— Jose Mourinho

“Fear is not a word in my football documentary.”

— Jose Mourinho

“I think it's clearly the result of something that looks like a campaign.”

— Jose Mourinho

“There are only two ways for me to leave Chelsea. One way is in June 2010 when I finish my contract and if the club doesn't give me a new one. It is the end of my contract and I am out. The second way is for Chelsea to sack me. The way of the manager leaving the club by deciding to walk away, no chance! I will never do this to Chelsea supporters.”

— Jose Mourinho

“Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism.”

— Jose Mourinho

“Four wins in four matches. It could not be better ... the world is fantastic.”

— Jose Mourinho