Top 45 Nuno Espirito Santo Quotes

I live in peace.

All coaches say, ‘We want to control the game. We want the ball. Blah, blah, blah, blah,’ but it’s impossible to have the ball all the time.

My interpretation of football is to stay humble, work hard, and things will come.

I am not obsessed about making an impression on the Premier League.

The first introduction I had with English football was in the FA Cup in the early ’80s.

What we are here for is to improve, to work as a team, stay humble and work hard, trying to achieve the best performance that we can in every game.

To be called up to the national team is what you want.

Football is an emotional game, and that is why we love it, but part of the work I have to do is to control that emotion both for me and my players.

Of course you learn a lot as a player when you pay attention to managers when they speak to you.

Knowing that the teams in front of us are sometimes better than you, you have to recognise that and be humble. It’s part of the game.

I truly believe you have to take things as they come, win or lose, and keep believing in how you want to do things and how you want to play.

When you realise that the ball is faster than you, you say to yourself, ‘OK, I love the game. I want to go on in this game, but not as a player.’

Football is a passionate game, and the emotions are intense. As long you respect the people around you, I don’t see any problem with that.

I try to distract with other things, but in my mind, it is always the game, especially the team, the shape, my players, what can I do, what is tomorrow, what can I give to them to improve them.

One of the things that is most difficult for a manager is reversing bad results and keeping going.

I love watching the Premier League.

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

Principe is paradise.

As a kid, Liverpool was big for us.

In Portugal, seeing a black cat is a bad sign; it’s bad luck. But they tell me if it crosses from left to right, it’s good luck. But I don’t like black cats!

It’s very hard to rank performances. It’s very difficult, and it doesn’t really matter if you rank performances.

I was late, as a player, many times. If you have bad traffic, what are you doing to do? Make a miracle? Sometimes it happens.

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don’t speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

Time is always important; sometimes time doesn’t always go along with patience. It is always important. You have to deal with it. It’s part of football. Every decision is judged.

This is one of the challenges we have: knowing that playing without the ball is just as important as when you have the ball.

Golf is a good time, valued time.

If you love your job the way I do and the way we do as a team and what we want to achieve, you have to love every aspect of it.

Our ambition is to win every game regardless of the opponent.

Life is continually changing. This is what makes people better.

When you have a small, balanced squad, you can work better. First of all everyone is involved in every squad list, a meeting can be a good training session.

I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.

At Porto, under Jose Mourinho, we won everything with a fantastic group of football players. Mourinho built that. He made us succeed, won everything. This has a big impact.

Even when you are not having the ball, you have to stay consistent, organised, and that’s what keeps you in the game.

People say that the most difficult part is scoring the goal. But what I have to do is get the player there. If you focus on the goal instead of the how, then suddenly the chances start to decrease.

When you have someone that manages, coaches you, and you follow, and you believe, and you do everything that you can because you believe in that idea in your leader, that stays forever. That is the impact Jose Mourinho had on me.

We work on our set pieces for every opponent. It’s a moment of the game that requires a lot of hard work, defensive and offensively. We try to invest our time in set pieces.

I will not ever change my principles. I will not do it. We have a ‘how.’ This is the most important thing we have – the ‘how’ we do things. Our style, our ideas, our principles with our mistakes that we have to correct.

What sells more, criticism or compliments? What do people like more? They enjoy blood.

I bought some land in Portugal, on the highest hill in Guimaraes, because I pictured that I wanted to build my house there. I said, ‘What a perfect place this would be,’ but I forgot to ask the council if I could build a house there. When I did, they said, ‘No!’

I love everything about football.

Goals always come from situations that are not so effective.

Representing your country is what you want.

I want to thank everybody for every day that I have spent at Valencia CF. It has been an honour and a source of pride for me.

When you speak about Jose Mourinho, personally, he has an impact on me.

Sometimes a polemic tweeter is more important than a normal view.