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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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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.
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Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.
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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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Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
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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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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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I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong
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Eric Cantona is a great player, but he's not as good as Ryan Giggs
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It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.
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Football is simple, you're either on time, or you're too late. If you're too late then you have to leave earlier.
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There is only one ball, so you need to have it.
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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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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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In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.
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Playing against 10 is harder than playing against 11 players. You know why? The team with 11 will think ok, we can take it easy now, while the team with 10 will think We really have to work hard now.
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Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake.
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Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.
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Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.
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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.
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