Jose Mourinho

“I have always felt an affinity with Old Trafford; it has hosted some important memories for me in my career, and I have always enjoyed a rapport with the United fans.”

“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.”

“When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.”

“Unhappy is a nice word.”

“The period before the game can be important to influence opinions, characters, personalities, feelings, and, of course, I use that to touch my players, to touch opponents, to touch supporters.”

“I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know, but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London.”

“So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.”

“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.”

“When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.”

“I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.”

“But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.”

“So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.”

“Once, players came to football expecting to be wealthy when they retired. Now, they expect to be wealthy before they've played their first game!”

“I give a lot of instruction in training. It's difficult for me to do the same in matches, so I need guys on the pitch to read the game, to understand what we want.”

“Well, uh, I don't know another way than to work at the top level, which is what I do every day.”

“Everybody can be smart.”

“The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.”

“And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.”

“The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.”