Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Mourinho

If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.

Jose Mourinho

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

Jose Mourinho

Eleven against eleven they never beat us.

Jose Mourinho

I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.

Jose Mourinho

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

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

Jose Mourinho

Four wins in four matches. It could not be better... the world is fantastic.

Jose Mourinho

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

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'

Jose Mourinho

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

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

Jose Mourinho

Let slip the dogs of champions.

Jose Mourinho

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

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

People don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much.

Jose Mourinho

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

You are pushed to behave differently here, you don't really have a choice. If you cheat you have no chance of being admired. Even your own supporters will dislike you. So what do you do? Well, the way is not to be stupid, but not to cheat either. If there is a foul, you have to fall. I call it 'helping the referee to make a decision'. That's not cheating.

Jorge Valdano

Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.

Jorge Luis Borges

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

Jonathan Woodgate

People say you're too good - you're never too good to go down, believe me. I've seen it at Leeds. We had a better team at Leeds than we have now and they went down eventually.

Jonathan Woodgate

Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.

I don't know how I kept sane - maybe I'm not sane

Kevin Williams

The linesman flagged initially because he thought I was an Oldham player. Fair enough, I did have a replica shirt on - but I also have a big furry head.

Mal Peet

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

Gay Talese

Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

Frank Lampard

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

Hesketh Pearson

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

Heather O'Reilly

At least for soccer players, it comes down to a blend of two types of fitness - your base endurance, which comes from longer distance running, and your speed, which comes from sprint-based workouts.

Heather O'Reilly

After getting glasses and contacts it was kind of a wow moment that I could definitely see better and on the soccer field it really helped me.

Henry Winter

Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the language filthy and the audience screamed behind you'' as tackles hurtled in like boulders crashing down a mountain-side. Such was the epic drama that gripped the Emirates yesterday. A derby crammed with sound, fury and significance ended with everyone grasping for breath, with Arsenal regaining the high ground of the Premier League... This was the Premier League at its raw, mistake-filled, mesmerising best. Utterly compelling.

Henry Winter

Kaka beat Fletcher to the ball, and headed it past Heinze as the Argentine sought to close him down. Heinze could still have dealt with the problem, but, inexplicably, Patrice Evra came flying in like a runaway TGV. Heinze was flattened, Fletcher was so shocked that he stopped to rubber-neck, and Kaka strolled on and rolled the ball past Van der Sar. Evra's nightmare of a half continued when he crazily got himself cautioned for dissent, so removing Ferguson's one remaining first-choice defender from the away leg. Madness.

Henry Winter

Anger infests Lee Bowyer's simple mind. He could get sent off playing solitaire.

Henry Winter

Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.