Jose Mourinho: "Maybe you should pick the [Inter Milan] team?"
Reporter: "I would if you gave me part of the nine million euros you earn."
Mourinho: "It's not nine, it's 11 - and with sponsors it comes to 14."
-- An exchange between Inter Milan coach
Jose Mourinho and an Italian reporter
from the
Irish Times ' best quotes of the year roundup. (14 million euros = $19.5 million.)