Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Mourinho

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

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

Jose Mourinho

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

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

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

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.

Jo Nesbo

At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

Jo Nesbo

I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.

James Surowiecki

Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.

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.