José Mourinho Quotes

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

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

Please do not call me arrogant because what I'm saying is true: I’m European champion, so I’m not one out of the bottle; I think I’m a special one.

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

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.

I understand why he [Alex Ferguson] is a bit emotional. He has some top players in the world and they should be doing a lot better than that... You would be sad if your team gets as clearly dominated by opponents who have been built on 10% of the budget.

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 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.'

I would say if all the names you wrote in the last few days are correct we would have a 50-player squad and I hate to work with big squads.

We would have only lost if there were six Inter players left on the pitch.

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

A brilliant reaction. I hate it when players just walk off. [Following Arjen Robben's sharp exit down the tunnel after being substituted against Aston Villa.]

I confess that it isn't easy to enter on football with the name of someone who is already in football. I feel that with my own son. He already lives under the pressure of being a son of mine. For that I admire Rui Águas and Maldini, who managed to live with the weight of that pressure, and already did a lot.

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.

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.