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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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Jose Mourinho
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 26
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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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I studied Italian five hours a day for many months to ensure I could communicate with the players, media and fans. [Claudio] Ranieri had been in England for five years and still struggled to say 'good morning' and 'good afternoon.'
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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.
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The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows?
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A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.
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I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.
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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.
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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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Dogs bark and the caravan goes by.
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Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.
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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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He's a specialist in failure.
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But the most important part of everything is to be happy.
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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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The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out.
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Everybody can be smart.
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With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!
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The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
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But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.
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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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