#nag

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

#christmas #christmas day #day #december #father

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

— Jose Mourinho

#differently #easy #follow #followed #i

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

#believed #completely #day #differently #go

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

#bad #believe #defender #football #good

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

#follow #had #here #i #i can

The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them. ↗

— Jamie Muir

#buddhism #caused #decide #experiences #felt

The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30. ↗

— Lorne Michaels

#humor #management #snl #tina-fey #funny

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#because #cats #confidence #could #even

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#get #got #had #intellectual #into

It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back. ↗

— Dale Murphy

#back #critical #feels #go #having