Explore Quotes by Jose Mourinho

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

The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.

He's a specialist in failure.

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.

There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.

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 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.

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

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.

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.

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.

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

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

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.

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

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

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.

So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.