208 Quotes by Jose Mourinho

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.

In football, I'm not so old. At 52, maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as... you might say an 'old fox.' Nothing scares me; nothing worries me too much. It looks like nothing new can happen for me.

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

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!

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.

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 always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.

I need my time to be lonely.

I remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in other stadiums.