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.

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

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

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.

No eggs, no omelette. And it depends on the quality of the eggs. In the supermarket, you have eggs class one, class two, class three. Some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem.

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

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

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

I’ll never have a tattoo – I just don’t like them, and when you’re old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don’t like them on men.

I spend a little time every day to play sports.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential – maybe even above it.

You can swim any way you like in the Dead Sea, actually.

More than anything, believe that you can win.

I need to improve, I want to improve, and to be able to stay in London and play on grass before Wimbledon is a very good opportunity for me.

I have lived my whole life with high intensity.

Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can’t do every dream that I have.

Sport has the power to change the world.

Winning is a way of expressing yourself.

My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn’t say that it’s more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

It is important to recognize the small successes.