Jose Mourinho Quotes

I am the special one.

I don’t play against rubbish teams.

The best team lost.

I don’t want to win the Europa League. It would be a disappointment for me.

It is not important what people say about you on the outside. It is important what you say to yourself on the inside.

I am not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

When I go to a football match, I only want to be surrounded by men.

I cannot understand why English players are so weak. I think they need to be educated.

I am a bit like the mad guy who arrives on the bicycle who interrupts the cricket match.

I may be emotional, but I am very objective about football.

I think the referee’s watch was linked to his heart. So when the young guy has some doubt, he stopped the watch.

There are some managers that the last time they won a title was 10 years ago, I won a title last month.

The only thing I can bring to the team is my experience and my desire to work.

I’m not a coach. I am a motivator and I bring out the best in people.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don’t change. I arrived with all my qualities and my weaknesses.

In the supermarket, you have to choose between 50 different apple juices, but in football, you only have two.

Some people don’t feel comfortable with what I say, but I am not a normal person. I love to say what I think.

A good team with 11 intelligent players can play with 10, but a bad team with 11 intelligent players can’t play with 10.

A manager is not a bench warmer. He has to be in the stand because he can see better than the bench.

Two seasons until we return to Wembley? When you decide to play a game in Wembley, you are ready.

I was very much a clown at the start of my career. I was a great provocateur on television, and I found it difficult to control myself.

I support my team. I protect my players. This is my DNA. If you have WW3, I give you my passport because I cannot use it anymore.

My ambition doesn’t stop, but my decisions don’t depend on titles or money, they depend on what makes me happy.

If I wanted to have an easy job, I would have stayed at Porto.

It is not the first time he [Arsene Wenger] has been aggressive to you [the media]. He is a specialist in failure.

I think we have lots of poets in football, but poets, they don’t win many titles.

A team is like a symphony – it has a lot of individual performers, but to be successful, they must all play in harmony.

I don’t like the commentators criticising the players.”

One day, I would like to arrive at the stadium and the opponent to know that the best team plays.

Mr. Wenger complains about game players, external pressures, but I think he is one of these persons who is purely focused on forgetting that.

I’m not sure we have enough mats for everybody who’s falling down.

The only thing I enjoy more than winning is seeing people cry.

Sometimes you see beautiful but empty bus stops. But I prefer a full bus.

If I wanted to have an easy job… I would have taken more vacation.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don’t change. I arrived with my qualities and my defects.

I am José Mourinho and I am your new manager. I have won a lot but I want to win more.

You know how good you are but you behave as if you were not sure how good you are.

I am ready to sit on the bench and play a game.

When you play here, you have to think big and dream big.

When you play for this club, success is obligatory.

We know Chelsea is not lower than fourth, so we have to fight for the first three positions.

I do my work and he [Arsene Wenger] does his work. I have respect for his overperforming.

The reality is that if you want to be a champ, you have to look and act like a champ.

For me, the next one is always the enemy. That’s because the next match is the most important match.