Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.
Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that’s the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.
Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.
I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.
There are very few players who know what to do when they’re not marked. So sometimes you tell a player: that attacker is very good, but don’t mark him.
To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.
Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.
The ball is an essential part of the game.
Before I make a mistake, I don’t make that mistake.
One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.
Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.
Why couldn’t you beat a richer club? I’ve never seen a bag of money score a goal.
We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You’ll get it back in no time.
Football is simple, you’re either on time, or you’re too late. If you’re too late then you have to leave earlier.
Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.
Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today’s players.
Every professional golfer has a separate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.
Eric Cantona is a great player, but he’s not as good as Ryan Giggs.
I don’t want to be a thief of my own wallet.