Jose Mourinho Quotes

On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I like pressure.

I want to be the guy in the red-zone, believe me.

Nobody was ever going to tell me that I didn't belong on a football field. And nobody was ever going to tell me that I couldn't be great.

Winning leaders are almost always motivated when the chips are down.

When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.

I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.

I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

To see the difficulties of the task without shrinking from them or feeling alarm, and to meet them with courage, is the way to succeed. I have often seen that the confidence of success has been the cause of the success itself…

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say "In spite of all!" has the calling for politics.

I don't like to lose. I don't care where it is.

At the beginning of my career, it was very hard to go up. Now, it's very hard to stay on top. You have to stay there, and I want to stay there so badly. I'm still standing.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I'm a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

There are people that said I will not be as good as my father, that I am trash, and asked why I am playing for the U.S.A. You know, that is just pushing me to be the star that my country has been looking for.

You've got to be able to hang in there in some uncomfortable pockets and uncomfortable situations, where you're going to take a hit and deliver the football.

Of all the things people have taught me regarding life lessons or anything that would benefit me, I don't think anything helped me learn more about life than football. You go through so many different things: adversity, how to handle adversity, how to handle success, how to lead, how to be a teammate, how to communicate.

When you don't have any worries, it is better, but things happen in football, and we know we must try to resolve as soon as we can.

I want to become one of the greatest managers that has ever lived. Why not? If it doesn't happen, then I've given everything, and I'd be proud of whatever I'm able to achieve.

Even when every Tom, Dick and Harry was calling for my head, I still felt I could get better at being captain.

I've not had a career like Brady or Rodgers with all the Super Bowls and the incredible things they've done. But for me, the adversity made me who I am.

I'm going to go out there and do what I do and play football, and everything will work out.