Top 100 Jose Mourinho Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I won’t say we have to win. I won’t put that pressure on us. But we can’t lose.”

— Jose Mourinho

2. “You don’t have to love me. You don’t even have to like me, but you will respect me.”

— Jose Mourinho

3. “It’s not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.”

— Jose Mourinho

4. “You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

6. “In my teams, when we win, we all win, and when we lose, I lose.”

— Jose Mourinho

7. “But the most important part of everything is to be happy.”

— Jose Mourinho

8. “Dogs bark and the caravan goes by.”

— Jose Mourinho

9. “We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

11. “Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football.”

— Jose Mourinho

12. “Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.”

— Jose Mourinho

13. “You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

18. “Money does not guarantee success.”

— Jose Mourinho

19. “Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.”

— Jose Mourinho

20. “Eleven against eleven they never beat us.”

— Jose Mourinho

21. “Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don’t want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.”

— Jose Mourinho

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22. “To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely and you will win. Remember, only teams succeed.”

— Jose Mourinho

23. “He’s a specialist in failure.”

— Jose Mourinho

24. “Unhappy is a nice word.”

— Jose Mourinho

25. “If I wanted to have an easy job, working with the big protection of what I have already done before, I would have stayed at Porto – beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me.”

— Jose Mourinho

26. “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

27. “Fear is not a word in my football documentary.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

30. “I think boring is a team that plays at home and can not score a goal.”

— Jose Mourinho

31. “With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!”

— Jose Mourinho

32. “Maybe next season we can race.”

— Jose Mourinho

33. “If Messi is the best on the planet, Ronaldo is the best in the universe.”

— Jose Mourinho

34. “Look, I’m a coach, I’m not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

36. “There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.”

— Jose Mourinho

37. “If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can’t. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.”

— Jose Mourinho

38. “Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.”

— Jose Mourinho

39. “Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say ‘With you I could go to every war.’”

— Jose Mourinho

40. “People don’t know about football. They think they know about it but they don’t know much.”

— Jose Mourinho

41. “If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.”

— Jose Mourinho

42. “I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.”

— Jose Mourinho

43. “As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.”

— Jose Mourinho

44. “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.”

— Jose Mourinho

45. “It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.”

— Jose Mourinho

46. “I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.”

— Jose Mourinho

47. “For me pressure is bird flu. I’m serious. I’m feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It’s not fun and I’m more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I’ll have to buy a mask.”

— Jose Mourinho

48. “The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.”

— Jose Mourinho

49. “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.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho