José Mourinho’s quotes about Success and Leadership

Davide Scialpi — Economist
2 min readMay 8, 2018

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JOSE’ MOURINHO is one of the world’s most famous and successful soccer manager and here are some of his quotes about Success and Leadership:

“..work hard to get good, then work hard to get better..”

“..losers complain. Winners train..”

“..It is not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race..I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank..”

“..there’s no pressure at the top. The pressure’s being second or third..”

“..Pressure? What Pressure?..Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There’s no pressure in football..”

“..you win by effort..by commitment ..by ambition ..by quality ..by expressing yourself individually.. but in the team context..”

“..I wont’ say we have to win. I won’t put that pressure. But we can’t lose..”

“..players win. Matches are on the pitch. Coaches just give a little help..”

“..tomorrow after the game I will be the special one..”

“…I have 3 things to do in my career. One thing is to be back to English Football. Another thing is to win the spanish championship. And another one, when I’ll be old is to coach my national team. I’ll be 70 years old and I will still have things to prove. That’s my motivation..”

“..the message has to be very short and objective..”

“..the team is more important than any player..I coach teams. I don’t coach individuals..and prefer to talk to everyone..”

“..we have 3 possibilities: 1 — we win; 2 we win 3 — we don’t win but we give them hard time..”.

“..I want more and more and more..”

“..I don’t feel pressure from the outside..”

“..there’s a difference between a dream and an obsession..a dream is more pure than an obsession. a dream is about pride. ”

“..you must create a good leadership with the players. An accepted leadership, not a leadership by power, not a leadership by status..make everybody feel part of a group..and I’m one of them..”

“..I’m not the kind of a guy.. that wants to celebrate a lot that title..because I always believe it’s not the last one..”

“..mistakes come because of lack of quality..or maybe the mistake is a consequence of the unpredictability of our job..of credit that you have to give to the others..”

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Davide Scialpi — Economist

Economist: Senior Management Director & Consultant specialised in strategy design-execution for brands-organizations https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidescialpi/