Quotes from Jose Mourinho

The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent.

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

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

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.

I have always felt an affinity with Old Trafford; it has hosted some important memories for me in my career, and I have always enjoyed a rapport with the United fans.

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.

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

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

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.

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

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.

In football, I'm not so old. At 52, maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as... you might say an 'old fox.' Nothing scares me; nothing worries me too much. It looks like nothing new can happen for me.

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

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

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.

I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.

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.

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.

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.

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

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

Money does not guarantee success.