Jose Mourinho Quotes

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

Being a foreigner is not a disease.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

Living in Germany Africanised me.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.

I don't really have that much contact with Americans. I mean, I see the oddest things on the Internet, I suppose. And I've got a couple of American friends, but they are Anglophiles anyway because they've decided to come live here.