Managers Quotes - Page 5

• Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Jesus

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• Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Sorry

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• I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Baby

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• This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar...in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Let slip the dogs of champions.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Dog

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

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

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

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Clever

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Jealous

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• We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Jumping

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• He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.

  Didier Drogba

  Soccer, Football, Minutes

  "Drog: Jose Is a Living God" by Neil McLeman, www.mirror.co.uk. January 18, 2006.

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

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Cousin

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

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, War

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

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, War

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, War

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Play

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Fun

  "Mourinho cool despite Man Utd run". news.bbc.co.uk. April 7, 2006.

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Feet

  "José Mourinho: The enigma who inspires love and hate" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

  Rafael Benitez

  Soccer, Football, Two

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Kids

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

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Dog

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Clever

  "'Why go for 5-0 when 2-0 will do?' says Jose". Interview with David Shonfield, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2006.

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• 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.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Cheating

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• The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

  Johnny Giles

  Soccer, Football, Goes On

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