Jose Mourinho

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.

[on Roman Abramovich] We were never friends – José Mourinho

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.

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

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

Because, to give a goal, the ball must be 100% in and he must be 100% sure that the ball is in.

Where do you go when you’re the best in the world? What’s next?

Playing well or playing bad, I have to play aggressive. I must play aggressive.

I became a player who goes to a lot of effort while training, who can rely on his will and his mental strengths.

The goal is to win. It’s not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don’t want to throw my money away, but it’s really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

The young athletes are supposed to mature, to improve their personality.

Two weeks ago, I was in a fantastic situation, winning at Roland Garros. Now, losing in the first round, it’s tough. The tour continues. Life continues. This is a sport of victories, not a sport of losses. Nobody remembers the losses. I don’t want to remember the loss.

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.

It should not be a child’s only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude.

I haven’t lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

Girls had never been important. I’d had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn’t love, because my first love was tennis.

Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.

Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.

Every girl has her own character, every boy his own mind.

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it’s just a great month of parading.

I always think about victory. It was very important for me to stay in this final. If I play my best I have a chance (against Federer). I’m going to play aggressively, with determination.