“It’s 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.”
"The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine."
- José Mourinho
Self-awareness
"I am not afraid to lose my job, and when you’re not afraid, you don’t feel any pressures. You are not too worried. You can express yourself in a different way. It makes you better, I think."
- José Mourinho
Courage
"You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context."
- José Mourinho
Teamwork
"Young players are a little bit like melons. Only when you open and taste the melon are you 100 per cent sure that the melon is good."
- José Mourinho
Insight
"We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can."
- José Mourinho
Adaptation
"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."
- Tina Fey
Taking Risks
"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Taking Risks
"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."
Taking Risks
"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
Taking Risks
"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."
- Thomas Aquinas
Taking Risks