• I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.9 · 59 votes · 115 reads

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• 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

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.8 · 48 votes · 102 reads

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• I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.2 · 5 votes · 187 reads

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• I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.2 · 9 votes · 138 reads

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• I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.4 · 12 votes · 156 reads

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

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.9 · 50 votes · 67 reads

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

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.9 · 50 votes · 185 reads

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• I think the best place to work in football is England.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 100 reads

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• 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.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 83 reads

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• In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.5 · 45 votes · 178 reads

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• 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

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.1 · 37 votes · 28 reads

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• It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on spor

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.9 · 31 votes · 177 reads

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

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.5 · 41 votes · 33 reads

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• Money does not guarantee success.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.8 · 52 votes · 80 reads

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

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.6 · 54 votes · 96 reads

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

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 125 reads

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• 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

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.5 · 27 votes · 158 reads

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• That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.1 · 42 votes · 78 reads

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• The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 11 reads

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• 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

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 153 reads

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

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.4 · 26 votes · 29 reads

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• The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.2 · 22 votes · 63 reads

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• The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  5.0 · 55 votes · 105 reads

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• 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

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 17 reads

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• 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

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.6 · 63 votes · 10 reads

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• When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.2 · 55 votes · 99 reads

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

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 185 reads

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

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.4 · 54 votes · 117 reads

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

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.1 · 32 votes · 84 reads

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• 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

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.6 · 18 votes · 200 reads

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