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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.

Jose Mourinho

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Jose Mourinho
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 26
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Coach
Diplomat
Setubal
Jose Mourinho
José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix
Jose Mario dos Santos Mourinho Felix
The Special One
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If at the end of the season I'm leaving the club, you have the right to come to me and say: 'Jose, you are a liar'
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The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
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Wenger has been Arsenal's coach for 15 years but he hasn't won even a Carling Cup for six years. Benitez hasn't won a league title in six years but they continue to keep him as Liverpool's coach. This is not the Italian mentality. To stay here I must continue winning and do well.
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The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.
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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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But the most important part of everything is to be happy.
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