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Jose Mourinho

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The quotes of Jose Mourinho have been shared, printed, and passed along for good reason. With equal ease, Jose Mourinho moved between Success and Change, finding connections others missed. Our collection holds 15 quotes from Jose Mourinho, each offering a different angle on Success, Change, Work, Society, and Respect. Readers often gravitate to this one: "But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups."

“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

Success

All Quotes by Jose Mourinho

“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.”

— Jose Mourinho

Society

“I think the best place to work in football is England.”

— Jose Mourinho

Best

“Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.”

— Jose Mourinho

Intelligence

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

— Jose Mourinho

Success

“I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.”

— Jose Mourinho

Good

“Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.”

— Jose Mourinho

Respect

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

— Jose Mourinho

Home

“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.”

— Jose Mourinho

Positive

“Money does not guarantee success.”

— Jose Mourinho

Money

“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

Success

“I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.”

— Jose Mourinho

Change

“So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.”

— Jose Mourinho

Change