1. "You may as well put a cow in the middle of the pitch. And then stop the game because there was a cow." after Newcastle lost.

2. "The way they are, tomorrow we will probably read I am to blame for the volcano. Maybe I have a friend in the volcano and I am responsible for that." Responded to Barca's complain over travelling

3. “I am not concerned about how Chelsea are viewed morally,” Mourinho rambled in his first stint at Stamford Bridge. “What does concern me is that we are treated in a different way to other clubs. Some clubs are treated as devils, some are treated as angels. I don’t think we are so ugly that we should be seen as the devil and I don’t think Arsene Wenger [and Co.] are so beautiful that they should be viewed as angels.”

4. "Look, I’m a coach. I’m not Harry Potter," Mourinho said after drawing 0-0 with Real Mallorca on his competitive Real Madrid debut. "Harry Potter is magical, but in reality there is no magic. Magic is fiction and football is real." lollllllllllllll seriously I love this guy

5. "I am prepared," he said after signing Sami Khedira. "The more pressure there is, the stronger I am. In Portugal, we say the bigger the ship, the stronger the storm. Fortunately for me, I have always been in big ships. FC Porto were a very big ship in Portugal, Chelsea were also a big ship in England and Inter were a great ship in Italy. Now I’m at Real Madrid, which is considered the biggest ship on the planet."

6. Mourinho on squad rotation during his first spell at Chelsea: "If you have at home one Bentley and one Aston Martin, if you go all day everyday in the Bentley and leave the Aston Martin in the garage you are a bit stupid." =))))))))))))

7. "It's like having a blanket that is too small for the bed," Mourinho said when Chelsea were in the midst of an injury crisis at the end of the January transfer window in 2007. "You pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket is made of cashmere."

8. "If you have no eggs, you have no omelette," Mourinho's infamously veiled criticism of Roman Abramovich's transfer policy began in 2007. "In the supermarket, you have class one, class two and class three eggs. Some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So, when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot get there, you have a problem." He was sacked shortly afterwards.

9. “Beautiful young eggs, eggs that need a mum, in this case a dad, to take care of them, to keep them warm during the winter, to bring the blankets and to work and improve them and one day we'll arrive in a moment when the weather changes, the sun rises, we break the eggs and the eggs are ready to go for life at the top level.”

10. "Claude Makelele is not a football player – Makelele is a slave," Mourinho said in criticism of the midfielder being called up to the France squad despite having announced his international retirement. "He’s played the biggest game you can, the World Cup final, and now wants to retire but the coach told us if he is not playing for France, he is not playing for Chelsea. We know the rules. You are a slave, you have no human rights."

11. "Barcelona is a cultural city with many great theatres," Mourinho started, in reaction to a young Lionel Messi getting Asier del Horno sent off for Chelsea in 2006. "And this boy has learned very well. He’s learned play-acting."

12. "Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists," Mourinho said ahead of a Champions League clash with Barcelona in 2006. "Our pitch is a bit like that. From the top it's a disgrace but the ball rolls at normal speed." =))))) lol did he implied scientist is UGLY?

13. "If you go hunting with a good dog, you hunt more. If you go with a cat, you hunt less but you're still hunting," Mourinho responded when asking about Gonzalo Higuain's injury, meaning he would be starting Karim Benzema.

14. "If I wanted to work quietly, I would have stayed at Portugal,” Mourinho said at his first press conference as Chelsea boss – the same one he coined the term 'special one'. “In Portugal we have pretty blue chairs, the Champions League, God and then, right after him, me.”

15. “It was a goal that came from the moon - from the Anfield stands,” Mourinho said after Chelsea were defeated by a ghost goal in the 2004-05 Champions League semi-final. “The best team lost. Liverpool scored, if you can say that they scored, because maybe you should say the linesman scored.”

16. "Young players are a little bit like melons," Mourinho mused in 2007 towards the end of his first stint at Chelsea. "Only when you open and taste the melon are you 100 per cent sure that the melon is good. Sometimes you have beautiful melons but they don’t taste very good and some other melons are a bit ugly and, when you open them, the taste is fantastic. The bridge is a difficult one to cross and they have to play with us and train with us for us to taste the melon."

17. "The one with 30 years experience has never won anything; the one with three years has won a lot," Mourinho wrote in his newspaper column in February 2005, regarding Porto coach Jesualdo Ferreira. "The one with a 30-year career will be forgotten when he ends it; the one with three could end it right now and he could never be erased from history. This could be the story of a donkey who worked for 30 years but never became a horse."

18. “As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal,” Mourinho said, famously coining the term 'parking the bus' after drawing 0-0 with Tottenham in 2004. “I would have been frustrated if I had been a supporter who paid £50 to watch this game because Spurs came to defend. There was only one team looking to win, they only came not to concede; it’s not fair for the football we played.” =))))) said the BUS PARKING MASTER.

19. "I think he is one of these people who is a voyeur," Mourinho said of Arsene Wenger in 2005. "He likes to watch other people. There are some guys who, when they are at home, have a big telescope to see what happens in other families. He speaks, speaks, speaks about Chelsea. I don't know if he wants my job, I don't know. He loves Chelsea.". Mou later also calls Wenger as a specialist in failure.

LOL Ok I take it back . I meant i read it again he totally meant it in a "sexual" way .

However, I don't think he is an angel just as much as I don't think he is all the things you said about him . I know people at my work who are completely different outside of the work . I think he raises the bar when it comes to being a club manager and plays every hand dealt to him by "dealer" .

And if he was United manager you would not call him anything close to what you said . I just look at it this way , if great manager Sir Alex and many great professional players think of Mourinho as fantastic person not just fantastic player then I really don't need to defend him at all . I think would know better people who actually have or had contact with him on daily basis.

Let me add this , if Zlatan says so then it is so , because he is Zlatan

Im very happy of how things are turning in this conversation, we finally got rid off Hypocrisy of our society and see things as a whole ( Negatives and positives ) at the same time, nothing in life is all white or all black, even the pope have his weaknesses because we are all human beings...
Between communication and how it works there is a Huge space, everybody in France insulted Henry handball against Ireland despite having only 0.3 second to think about it, under-pressure it may have been a reflex and after that he couldnt say its not a goal we shouldnt go into WC because of fair play, everyone was ready to kill him mediatically if he did.
So he went being insulted in public by media, but secretly greeted by all who insulted him on public, in buisness world its mainstream but to the mass who are used to Walt Disney non existant moral, they love to keep controlling people by saying everything is okay, we live in a fair world, the good always win against the bad, THATS NOT TRUE, thats absolute BS.

One thing i love about Mourinho and SAF despite their theatrics, they are real Men and act like Men in public, they answer when they need to, as frank as possible with sometimes mind games, give their opinion as it is even if its not shared or well welcomed.

Mourinho criticized how African borns were treated in the Football world, about inequity in the world, helping people in need not for a commercial reason...
This is why a Mourinho would be always better than any conformist mediatic icon, at least they arent dolls in rich people hands, in a world where the respect is only taken most of the times, they prooved themselves by their work who backs their words...

If Mourinho was an average coach or someone introverted in communication, he would have been eaten alive by behind of the scenes sharks.

Like the game said, if your personality is too week or brain washed by Disney/Hollywood, failure is waiting for you.

Yeah,I'm a huge fan of Mou and his mind games. TBH he would make a smooth transition into OT.