Explore Quotes by Jose Mourinho

I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know, but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London.

I have always felt an affinity with Old Trafford; it has hosted some important memories for me in my career, and I have always enjoyed a rapport with the United fans.

When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.

I remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in other stadiums.

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

You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.

I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends, and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football, and I can have everything together, and I don't need to give up one to be better than what I am.

There has been evolution in many different areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology... I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite.

Unhappy is a nice word.

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.

I'm not afraid to lose my job, and when you're not afraid, you don't feel any pressures. You are not too worried; you can express yourself in a different way. It makes you better, I think.

I give a lot of instruction in training. It's difficult for me to do the same in matches, so I need guys on the pitch to read the game, to understand what we want.

The period before the game can be important to influence opinions, characters, personalities, feelings, and, of course, I use that to touch my players, to touch opponents, to touch supporters.

Once, players came to football expecting to be wealthy when they retired. Now, they expect to be wealthy before they've played their first game!

I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.

Well, uh, I don't know another way than to work at the top level, which is what I do every day.

In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.

I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal.

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

I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent.

I need my time to be lonely.