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Football team manager

Jose Mourinho, born on January 26, 1963, is a Portuguese football coach renowned for his unique tactical approach and leadership style. He has coached several top clubs, including Real Madrid, Chelsea, and Manchester United. Mourinho has achieved great success in football, winning multiple domestic league titles and international competitions.

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Famous Jose Mourinho Quotes

“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.”

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“Let slip the dogs of champions.”

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

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

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

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“I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.”

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

Football Brother Managers Soccer Coast Cousin Chairman Ivory Porto

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

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“It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.”

Knows War Enemy Know How Football Managers Soccer Chairman

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“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.”

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“We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.”

Ifs Want Play Football Notes Managers Soccer Chairman Great Music

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“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.”

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“It is 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 I have is made of cashmere. So it's good.”

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“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.”

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

Cities Dog Football Safe London Managers Soccer Chairman Portugal City Of London

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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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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Eleven against eleven they never beat us.”

Football Beats Managers Soccer Chairman Eleven

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“To me, attacking football happens when Makelele gets the ball and passes it to the central defender who passes it to the right-back who comes forward and judges the situation. If he can do something he passes forward or runs with the ball, if not he gives it back to Makelele who builds the attack again. That is attacking football. In England attacking football is giving the ball to Makelele and having him hit it forward no matter what, even if everybody is marked.”

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“Ronaldinho is better than Cristiano Ronaldo, but neither are as good as Leo Messi. He holds numerous records, such as the most goals scored in a single La Liga season and the most goals scored in a calendar year. I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. He has everything. We must protect him.”

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

“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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“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.”

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“I think the best place to work in football is England.”

Thinking Football England Best Place

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“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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“Money does not guarantee success.”

Doe Money Football Guarantees

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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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.”

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“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.”

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“I won't say we have to win. I won't put that pressure. But we can't lose.”

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“Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.”

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“I think boring is a team that plays at home and can not score a goal.”

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

Football Documentaries

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

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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 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.”

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

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

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“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.”

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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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“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.”

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“He's a specialist in failure.”

Football League Specialists

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“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.”

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

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

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“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.”

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About the Author

Born: January 26, 1963
Known for: Football team manager
Quotes: 136

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