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! – Jose Mourinho
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. – Jose Mourinho
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. – Jose Mourinho
You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don’t say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football. – Jose Mourinho
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. – Jose Mourinho
In football, I’m not so old. At 52, maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as… you might say an ‘old fox.’ Nothing scares me; nothing worries me too much. It looks like nothing new can happen for me. – Jose Mourinho
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. – Jose Mourinho
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. – Jose Mourinho
I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal. – Jose Mourinho
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. – Jose Mourinho
I am Jose Mourinho and I don’t change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects. – Jose Mourinho
I hate to speak about individuals. Players don’t win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies. – Jose Mourinho
Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one. – Jose Mourinho
When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started. – Jose Mourinho
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. – Jose Mourinho
And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think. – Jose Mourinho