Jose Mourinho

Some clubs are treated as devils, some are treated as angels.

Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war.

I don’t think we are so ugly that we should be seen as the devil and I don’t think Arsene Wenger and David Dein are so beautiful that they should be viewed as angels.

Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one.

For me, pressure is bird flu. I’m feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It’s not fun and I’m more scared of it than football.

I have a lot of respect for Liverpool fans and what I did, the sign of silence – ‘shut your mouth’ – was not for them, it was for the English press.

Some clubs are treated as devils, some are treated as angels.

Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.

With Almagro, boy, that’ll be a tough match. He’s playing at a very high level right now and he hits the ball hard.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship – all these things shaped me too.

In the second, I told myself just to hold my serve and try and be aggressive on his serve, and hopefully get a break. I also applied more topspin on my forehand. Once I won the second game after being 0-30 down, my confidence also went up.

In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.

I have lived my whole life with high intensity.

Sport has the power to change the world.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

Please don’t call me arrogant, but I’m European champion and I think I’m a special one.

I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldnt have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I’ve got a brand new look – I’ve moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.

My serve can get better, for sure. It’s not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.