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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

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Jose Mourinho
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 26
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Three years without a Premiership title? I don't think I would still be in a job.
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There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.
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I always think there's our age in ID terms but then there's our real age because for me the real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born. The real age, the real ID is your body, your brain, your attitude.
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You don't have to love me. You don't even have to like me, but you will respect me.
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I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.
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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.
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The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.
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When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...
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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.
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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.
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Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe.
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Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.
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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.
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Let slip the dogs of champions.
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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.
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Would you phone the president of Ghana?
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Without emotional control you cannot play, influence you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.
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At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.
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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.
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We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.
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