Best 126 quotes of Jose Mourinho on MyQuotes

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.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Dogs bark and the caravan goes by.

Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.

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

Eleven against eleven they never beat us.

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

Everybody can be smart.

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.

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.

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.

Fear is not a word in my football documentary.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

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

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

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

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.

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

He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him

He is the best. The best in the world, yes. Probably the best ever. I saw Maradona a couple of times. I never saw Pele. But Cristiano is amazing. This man is the best... Cristiano is a goals machine. He is an incredible player. He is like Zidane, there will never be another Ronaldo.

He's a specialist in failure.

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

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.

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'.

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.

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

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.

If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.

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'

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking. But I also have things to give them.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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!

If you look at revenge we are still winning three one you know, so I don't think it is a question of revenge, is a question of a personal thing

If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this

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.

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

I intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy. 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.

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.

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.