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.
Jose MourinhoRead
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.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of evaluating managers based on their ability to achieve success, rather than their tenure or style.
In this quote, Jose Mourinho expresses his belief that the merit of football managers should be judged solely on their effectiveness and results, rather than on their experience or the era in which they operate. This reflects a pragmatic approach to leadership, suggesting that success is the ultimate measure of a managerβs capabilities.
In practice
In a discussion about sports management during a conference.
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.
You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.
I won't say we have to win. I won't put that pressure. But we can't lose.
You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.
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 would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.
Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.
The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks_x000D_ _x000D_ ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.
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