Mourinho Best Quotes & Sayings

If Messi is the best in the world, it's only because Cristiano is from another planet. — Jose Mourinho

He is the best. The best in the world, yes. Probably the best ever. I saw Maradona a couple of times. I never saw Pele. But Cristiano is amazing. This man is the best ... Cristiano is a goals machine. He is an incredible player. He is like Zidane, there will never be another Ronaldo. — Jose Mourinho

I want to congratulate again Mike Dean. I think his performance was unbelievable and I think when referees have unbelievable performances, I think it's fair that as managers we give them praise. So fantastic performance. — Jose Mourinho

If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary. — Jose Mourinho

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context. — Jose Mourinho

I won't say we have to win. I won't put that pressure. But we can't lose. — Jose Mourinho

Chelsea are up there with best teams in the world,and let's hope United can join us in quarter-finals. — Jose Mourinho

If I wanted to have an easy job, working with the big protection of what I have already done before, I would have stayed at Porto - beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me. — Jose Mourinho

No club moves me from Chelsea until Chelsea wants me to move because I want to be where I am loved. — Jose Mourinho

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

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

I gave my jersey to Mourinho because he's the best coach in the world and I love him like a father. — Mesut Ozil

If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt! — Jose Mourinho

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

Mourinho is the best coach in the history of football. — Mario Balotelli

Everybody can be smart. — Jose Mourinho

Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe. — Jose Mourinho

Yes, Manchester United are the best team in England, but you have to ask how good has the Premier League been since I left? If I was at a top club in England I think the title race might have been a lot closer this year. — Jose Mourinho

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. — Jose Mourinho

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

I think the best place to work in football is England. — Jose Mourinho

Unhappy is a nice word. — Jose Mourinho

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

A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano ... being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play. — 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

The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him. — Jose Mourinho

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one. — Jose Mourinho

If Messi is the best on the planet, Ronaldo is the best in the universe. — Jose Mourinho

My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games. — Jose Mourinho

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona. — Gary Neville

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. — Jose Mourinho

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument! — Jose Mourinho

I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus. — Jose Mourinho

Money does not guarantee success. — Jose Mourinho

Four wins in four matches. It could not be better ... the world is fantastic. — Jose Mourinho

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. — Jose Mourinho

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

I fell a bit in love with Celtic, because the atmosphere was amazing and the crowd was magnificent, the way they behaved with the Porto fans. — Jose Mourinho

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. — Jose Mourinho

The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows? — Jose Mourinho

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.' — Jose Mourinho

One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not stupid. With will you can achieve things. — Jose Mourinho

In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose — Jose Mourinho

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters. — Jose Mourinho

Ranieri? He's right in what he says: I am very demanding of myself and I need to win to be secure about things. That's why I've won so many trophies in my career. He, on the other hand, has the mentality of someone who doesn't need to win and at nearly 70 years old he has won a Supercoppa and another small cup. He's too old to change his mindset. — 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

If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work. — Jose Mourinho

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. — Jose Mourinho

Instead of speaking about Real Madrid, Mr Wenger should speak about Arsenal and explain how he lost 2-0 against a team in the Champions League for the first time [Braga]. The history about the young kids is getting old now. Sagna, Clichy, Walcott, Fabregas, Song, Nasri, Van Persie, Arshavin are not kids. They are all top players. — Jose Mourinho

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

Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that. — Jose Mourinho

It's not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank. — Jose Mourinho

Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football — Jose Mourinho