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In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.
I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal.
No club moves me from Chelsea until Chelsea wants me to move because I want to be where I am loved.
Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.
When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude.
In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that.
Chelsea are up there with best teams in the world,and let's hope United can join us in quarter-finals.
The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out.
When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.
The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.
The title race is between two horses and a little horse that needs milk and needs to learn how to jump.
I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.
If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.
I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.
But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.
The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.
The problem with Chelsea is I lack a striker. I have Samuel Eto'o but he is 32 years old - maybe 35, who knows?
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
If at the end of the season I'm leaving the club, you have the right to come to me and say: 'Jose, you are a liar'
My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.
I remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in other stadiums.
The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.
Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.
You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.
My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.
We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.
Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football
Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.
Look, I'm a coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real.
I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know, but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London.
When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off, I wasn't surprised.
I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.
If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.
If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this
I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent.
I fell a bit in love with Celtic, because the atmosphere was amazing and the crowd was magnificent, the way they behaved with the Porto fans.
So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.
In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.
If you look at revenge we are still winning three one you know, so I don't think it is a question of revenge, is a question of a personal thing
We are on top at the moment, but not because of the club's financial power. We are in contention for a lot of trophies because of my hard work.
Once, players came to football expecting to be wealthy when they retired. Now, they expect to be wealthy before they've played their first game!
Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.
Brendan's chihuahua doesn't do that. During the week it sleeps, eats and trains a little bit. So I have to say his chihuahua is a privileged one.
Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that.
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!
Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
It’s not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.
I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking. But I also have things to give them.
If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.