Jose Mourinho

“Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.”

“I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.”

“I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.”

“Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.”

“In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.”

“When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started.”

“You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time.”

“The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.”

“I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal.”

“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.”

“In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.”

“Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.”

“I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.”

“I'm not afraid to lose my job, and when you're not afraid, you don't feel any pressures. You are not too worried; you can express yourself in a different way. It makes you better, I think.”

“Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.”

“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.”

“In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.”

“I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.”

“I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent.”

“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.”