Quotes from 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.

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know, but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London.

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

Money does not guarantee success.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Chelsea are up there with best teams in the world,and let's hope United can join us in quarter-finals.

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

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

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe.