Jose Mourinho Quotes

I'm a realist, I understand football and situations in the game.

You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

I love to have my football camps. I love being a part of that.

I don't think it's my job or anything that I owe somebody. But it is nature - coaching - and I like to think I'm pretty charitable in the sense that I like to help people out, share and talk football.

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.

It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

The real secret of magic is that there is no magic.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’

When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.

When you see athletes like me win gold medals, you only see the finished product, you dont see the real effort that the likes of Ron have put into making that product. Without the Ron Roddans of this world, you would have no sport.

Write this: Since my boy is the coach, I'm going to try out for the Dolphins next year. Tight end.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

Youngsters of Little League can survive undercoaching a lot better than overcoaching.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.

I'm not real. I'm theatre.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

Any old coach will say the game was meant for finesse. It's a beautiful game, especially on television.

Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why the Bible is the most realistic of religious books. We can easily ignore or argue away abstractions, but we bump up against concretely real people, things, and events in story, as in life.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.