Quotes by Portuguese authors

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"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"I am not a prophet"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction"

Jose Saramago, Writer

"Could it think, the heart would stop beating"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"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"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"I think the best place to work in football is England"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"All is worthwhile if the soul is not small"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates"

Fernando Pessoa, Author

"The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"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"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"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"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"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"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

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