Top 50 Andre Villas-Boas Quotes

There has to be a level of entertainment. But the trophy cabinet is something that is more visible.

My passion for football makes me live it very intensively over 11 months and dedicate myself to that, but I think life allows you to enjoy other things.

Players can only achieve their true ‘potential if they are not ‘shackled and are able to stand on their own two feet.

I wouldn’t criticise Carlo Ancelotti.

Tottenham I really enjoyed the first year, and by the time I left we had almost as many points as in the season before when we broke the points record. But these are things that people don’t evaluate, only I know about.

That image is now associated with the Portuguese coaches: the ability to adapt, to arrive and win, to assemble good teams and good structures is undoubtedly one of our brands and I think that’s the main fact for which we are most respected around the world.

When a person assumes he has made a mistake, it’s for all of us to accept a mistake was made.

I am a person who always puts the team in front and I do it publicly.

I do not know where my career will take me.

We have to improve on a weekly basis, on a game-to-game basis.

The team is more important than any individual.

I am linked with Jose because we worked together, but I don’t go out of my way to talk about it. We are ‘different people, have ‘different ‘personalities and different views on the game.

I have become more versatile after the Chelsea experience.

I have never used Prozone.

I don’t see a lack of quality in Bundesliga. It’s competitive and has good players. I am a huge fan of Thomas Muller in particular. He sums up German players. He’s disciplined, versatile and always dangerous in front of the goal.

You always have to be very, very careful with statistics. It doesn’t mean that we negate them completely; we just don’t use them to the extent that people might think.

I’m not a guy who is able to criticise anyone in public but I am not a guy who promotes individuals in public.

In professional football you have to live day-to-day.

I just want to make my players give their most. I give them room to express themselves because that’s how they develop. I promote their talent and let them make their own decisions.

In Porto, when we were preparing, the players guessed the team that was going to play.

You have to remain ambitious and have dreams.

Only teams with style succeed. But, in the end, success is normally what matters in modern Europe.

I’m a manager who respects club policy.

Everybody likes attacking football; the Premiership is the most exciting league in the world.

I strongly believe that’players have to express themselves to their full potential, they must be able to make choices during the game.

To put in doubt the leadership of Sepp Blatter as FIFA president is not for me to say or managers to say.

The objective is the group performance, but every single individual requires a different response from a manager – you can’t be the same person to each player.

This game is based on good values more than anything else.

Having, and building, a team that plays good football is important.

Football isn’t won by one person but by collective competence. It is the quality of the players and the structure of the club.

I want to play the Champions League with Marseille, but I want to know how much we are economically dependent on our project.

I told players that when we score a goal, the bench lives through the same emotions and we celebrate with them, with the same desire.

I have no problem dropping players.

Playing in Italy and scoring goals is difficult.

Managers have different leadership styles and ways to go about their business. But in the end it doesn’t matter if the manager is old-fashioned, old school or always looking towards the future.

The Chelsea experience was too much too soon. I wasn’t flexible as a manager at that time. I was communicative, but I wasn’t flexible in my approach.

I say it sincerely, I’m fine in Marseille, I don’t want to look for other clubs or other options.

We don’t see the game as a tactical game.

Tottenham set a points and victories record in my first season, missed out on the Champions League by one point and had a great run in the Europa League. In the second season, at the time I left we had more points than in the previous campaign.

The Premier League is guided by this dynamic: ball lost – ball recovered – ball lost again. That makes matches unpredictable, teams must be objective and behave like that because that’s what excites fans.

After Chelsea it was important to choose somewhere I was surrounded with the right people and commitment.

Strong teams are consistent when they have their best players available – you always want a stronger team than the one before.

I am an individual who has that hunger for success and I want to keep it that way.

Tottenham Hotspur is a great club with a strong tradition and fantastic support, both at home and throughout the world.

To compete in the Dakar Rally is a lifetime ambition for me and is something I know I have to do.

The club is more important than any individual.

Only by learning from experiences are you able to deal with them better the next time.

I got an offer from Paris Saint-Germain, who wanted me, but I said no out of love for Tottenham. Maybe that was a mistake.

I think I just want to have a career I can be proud of, whenever it finishes.

I’m very happy at Porto. It’s the city I grew up in. It is my own club and I don’t think it is easy to leave it.