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.

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

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.

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

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

So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

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.

The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Everybody can be smart.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.

I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1.

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

I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends, and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football, and I can have everything together, and I don't need to give up one to be better than what I am.

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 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.

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

I need my time to be lonely.

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

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.

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.

Money does not guarantee success.

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!

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

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

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