Jose Mourinho Quotes

It doesn't seem like the season really gets under way until you have your home opener

You want the best players to be on form come the Euros.

Fenerbahce really made me feel at home and the fans loved me.

I am a football fan, I've watched football my whole life. When my favourite team didn't do well I'd get angry.

It was tough to go to Norwich and not play after doing well at Coventry.

It's always great to be home and play in front of family and friends, especially for a big game.

My father taught me to love Flamengo, which has always been my second home.

I joined Sunderland, a great club, to be successful, to feel at home again. It hasn't worked out, but that's not through lack of effort.

I want to play for Central because I love the club. I was raised there and taught football there. Central is where it all began for me.

I always followed Everton. If the team were playing on television, I would watch the game. If not, then I would look to check the results. I always wanted to see how they were doing.

My dad (Ken Griffey) would have bopped me on the head when I was a kid if I came home bragging about what I did on the field. He only wanted to know what the team did.

Everyone is going to be talking about Chelsea and Liverpool but the others are very tough teams.

It was a dream for me to play in the red shirt - I will keep this shirt with me always. I hope this is the start of a lot of games for United, It wasn't only me in this game though, I think the whole team enjoyed the game and did well. It's the first match and we have done good things. It's a good step and we're very happy.

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win. That is the most important thing.

The reality, ... is that I need to win games of football. That's where the pressure and the sleepless nights come from. There's a fantasy pressure with this job but none of that matters. I need to make this team into a good unit, need to take it forward, give it a change of pace, need to get it younger and to use the experience of the lads we've got here. I need Lennon and Sutton and people like that to go and show how you handle being a Celtic player.

We're not going to apologize for acting like a good football team.

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

I leave at half-time; by then you can see which way it's going. If you ask me to name five of our team, I couldn't. There's that guy who scores goals - Taarabt. Routledge I've heard of. All bloody nice guys but I don't mix with them so I don't know them well. I don't go in the dressing room. They can walk out of the showers and I feel I've got an inferiority complex.

A home opener is always exciting, no matter if it's home or on the road.

At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.

I know what to do when they give me the ball. I know what to do to give this team a chance to win.

Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.