‘Sacked? If it happens I will be a millionaire’ - Jose Mourinho's best Chelsea quotes

Jose Mourinho is famous for his witty one-liners. Here are some of his most memorable from his two spells at Stamford Bridge.

On taking over at Chelsea for the first time in 2004:

“I have top players and, I’m sorry, we have a top manager. Please do not call me arrogant because what I say is true. I’m European champion, I’m not one out of the bottle, I think I’m a special one.”

On pressure:

“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 the lack of funds available to him to improve his Chelsea squad, 2007:

“It is omelettes and eggs. No eggs — no omelettes! It depends on the quality of the eggs. In the supermarket you have class one, two or class three eggs and 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 Arsenal rival Arsene Wenger:

“I think he is one of these people who is a voyeur. 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.”

On who would play him in a film:

“I think they should get George Clooney to play me. He’s a fantastic actor and my wife thinks he would be ideal.”

On conspiracies (or facts):

“It is not possible to have a penalty against Manchester United and it is not possible to have penalties in favour of Chelsea. It is not a conspiracy, it is fact. I speak facts. If not, I need big glasses.”

On being sacked:

“If the club decide to sack me because of bad results that’s part of the game. If it happens I will be a millionaire and get another club a couple of months later.”

On God:

“He must really think I’m a great guy. He must think that, because otherwise he would not have given me so much. I have a great family. I work in a place I’ve always dreamt of working. He has helped me out so much that he must have a very high opinion of me.”

On Wenger again:

“He’s a specialist in failure. If he is right and I am afraid of failure it is because I didn’t fail many times. Eight years without silverware, that’s failure.”

On young players:

“Young players are like melons. Only when you open and taste the melon are you 100% sure that the melon is good.”

On the media:

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

On the Leicester defeat that apparently sealed his fate:

“The two goals are very difficult to accept. It’s a big frustration to accept because I feel like my work was betrayed.”