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He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him

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Jose Mourinho
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 26
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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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People don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much.
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Unhappy is a nice word.
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I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.
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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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If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.
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The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.
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With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!
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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.
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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.
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Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.
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In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.
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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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It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm, and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket I have is made of cashmere. So it's good.
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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!
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If Messi is the best on the planet, Ronaldo is the best in the universe.
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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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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.
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I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.
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The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.
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