Football is full of different characters but there are perhaps none who have a split personality quite like Jose Mourinho, as I can testify from personal experience.
Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.
When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.
I hope Lee's scandal isn't real.
Being in the public eye, you're always worried about what angle people are going to take pictures of you at. I don't really care anymore.
People know I'll be sensational, not scandalous. There's a fine-line difference. Sensational means titillating the viewer. Scandalous means being condemned by the viewer for making unfair, uncouth revelations.
I don't like being overexposed. I don't like being on covers. And I don't like people talking about me.
I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like 'You said this back then!'
When you get into the public eye, one day, you're kind of unknown, and the next day, you have people in your bushes waiting to take a picture of you.
I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I want to go out and grab a smoothie with a friend who's a male, I'm not gonna let the paparazzi stop me from doing that and living my life and just being a normal person.
I don't worry about being bothered by the media. Either I'm going to talk or not talk.
The truth is I've always been a Christian. What's amazing, is that the flaws that come with Christianity are really weird, because mine have a microphone and a camera attached to them. Most people don't have to live under that microscope.
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
The truth is, I suppose I am now public property; and a public inn is the place where people can have access to me.
When I was Under-Secretary, I never got quoted at all. Now everything I say gets noted and printed.
I was almost as famous at Indiana for my television shows as I was my coaching. That's kind of embarrassing when you think about it.
Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.
If Michelle Obama had stepped out in an outrageously priced jacket by an Italian designer, heads would have rolled. People would have said it was deplorable.
When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.
I don't think about my fame very much.
