Jose Mourinho Quotes

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

When your teammates trust you to make the right play, your confidence is building as every game goes on.

I think it speaks a lot to Coach Kidd and my teammates to trust me as a rookie to make plays down the stretch. When they put that confidence in you, it's hard not to try to make plays.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

Every team knows its strength.

Having a team that I trust is, for me, really important.

If a young player feels comfortable in a team then they will flourish and be who they want to be. It's less about patronising them and more about trusting them.

When I'm out there playing basketball, it's just, 'Let me do me,' and everybody is going to benefit. I feel confident that whoever I'm out there with is going to win.

Throughout the season, I look into my players eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust.

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

I've already developed trust in my teammates -as a player and as a person.

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they're doing.

When I was 17, I made the decision to have a good attitude. I was a junior in high school; the coach said I was going to be the captain of my basketball team. I thought – that surprised me because I wasn’t the best player. John Thomas was better than me, and I was probably second or third best player. And I kept thinking, “Why am I going to be the captain?” I think everybody else was thinking that too. And the coach then answered, “The reason John is going to be the captain is he has the best attitude on the team. He encourages others, he believes we can win, he never gives up.”

I have one of the great temperaments. I have a winning temperament. Hillary Clinton has a bad temperament. She's weak. We need a strong temperament.

I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, “I’m beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. I’m beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And I’m beautiful because I say I am. I’ve earned it, and I’m gonna be it.

Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.

A lot of people need an infusion of confidence.

There is nothing more powerful as attitude.

The best teams I've had had a little bit of swagger.

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.