Top 100 Jose Mourinho Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I remember the first time I saw him play. It was for a Sporting CP youth team. I told my assistant, ‘There goes Van Basten’s son.’ Ronaldo had great technique. He stood out.”

— Jose Mourinho

52. “It’s a pity we can’t play in two or three days as I like to play straight away after a bad game.”

— Jose Mourinho

53. “Everybody can be smart.”

— Jose Mourinho

54. “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.”

— Jose Mourinho

55. “Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism.”

— Jose Mourinho

56. “I must try to hide my emotions. I have to live with both the victory and the defeat.”

— Jose Mourinho

57. “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.”

— Jose Mourinho

58. “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.”

— Jose Mourinho

59. “When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee’s dressing room I couldn’t believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off, I wasn’t surprised.”

— Jose Mourinho

60. “Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don’t have the money to bring you to Porto.”

— Jose Mourinho

61. “I don’t have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.”

— Jose Mourinho

62. “Yes, Manchester United are the best team in England, but you have to ask how good has the Premier League been since I left? If I was at a top club in England I think the title race might have been a lot closer this year.”

— Jose Mourinho

63. “I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.”

— Jose Mourinho

64. “If you’re not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs – we cannot do this.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

66. “Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.”

— Jose Mourinho

67. “Would you phone the president of Ghana?”

— Jose Mourinho

68. “You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don’t say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.”

— Jose Mourinho

69. “The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.”

— Jose Mourinho

70. “If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!”

— Jose Mourinho

71. “The best way to stop Messi is when you play with 11 men and then you can double mark him, one player to stay on him and the other to help out. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.”

— Jose Mourinho

72. “When I was at Porto my team also played in the UEFA Cup final against a Scottish side – but it was Celtic. I’ve never seen such emotional people. It was unbelievable!”

— Jose Mourinho

73. “It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm, and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket I have is made of cashmere. So it’s good.”

— Jose Mourinho

74. “Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don’t believe they can win. They don’t believe.”

— Jose Mourinho

75. “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.”

— Jose Mourinho

76. “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.”

— Jose Mourinho

77. “My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard’s history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.”

— Jose Mourinho

78. “If you look at revenge we are still winning three one you know, so I don’t think it is a question of revenge, is a question of a personal thing.”

— Jose Mourinho

79. “I want to congratulate again Mike Dean. I think his performance was unbelievable and I think when referees have unbelievable performances, I think it’s fair that as managers we give them praise. So fantastic performance.”

— Jose Mourinho

80. “My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.”

— Jose Mourinho

81. “If Messi is the best in the world, it’s only because Cristiano is from another planet.”

— Jose Mourinho

82. “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.”

— Jose Mourinho

83. “The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.”

— Jose Mourinho

84. “If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.”

— Jose Mourinho

85. “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.”

— Jose Mourinho

86. “The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto’o but he is 32 years old – maybe 35, who knows?”

— Jose Mourinho

87. “If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.”

— Jose Mourinho

88. “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.”

— Jose Mourinho

89. “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’”

— Jose Mourinho

90. “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.”

— Jose Mourinho

91. “For Chelsea, I would turn down every job in the world.”

— Jose Mourinho

92. “The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.”

— Jose Mourinho

93. “It gave the title to Manchester City – it’s as simple as that.”

— Jose Mourinho

94. “Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

96. “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.”

— Jose Mourinho

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

— Jose Mourinho

98. “We are on top at the moment but not because of the club’s financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.”

— Jose Mourinho

99. “The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.”

— Jose Mourinho

100. “No club moves me from Chelsea until Chelsea wants me to move because I want to be where I am loved.”

— Jose Mourinho