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Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.

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I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.
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There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.
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I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong
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Every trainer talks about movement, about running a lot. I say don't run so much. Football is a game you play with your brain. You have to be in the right place at the right moment, not too early, not too late.
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Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.
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There are very few players who know what to do when they're not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don't mark him.
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Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
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I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.
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Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.
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You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the world of football. The English footballer is very brave and strong and committed and there is always enough high-class players in his team to cause concern in any opponent. It is a national characteristic.
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The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.
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The ball is an essential part of the game.
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Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.
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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.
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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.
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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
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If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.
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I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.
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