Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by Nuno Espirito Santo

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

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

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

Golf is a good time, valued time.

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

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.

When you try to build an identity based on one idea, the easy part is to stick with the good things that you do.

I live in peace.

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 respect the people who work with me, and I respect the crowds in the stadiums - I just live the game and try to advise my players in the right moments. If that means I have to raise my arms and jump, I will raise my arms and jump if that is the best way to help them.

Every team and club has its own personal goals and objectives, and I'm only concerned about mine.

Every game is a chance to improve.

I would say, 24/7, I am thinking about football.

I love everything about football.

I want to build a team who can play home and away the same.

I was a goalkeeper, but through my career, I spent almost as much time sitting on the bench as I did playing.

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.

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.

Principe is paradise.

I have this absurd feeling that I can win every game with any team.

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.

All I do is challenge the players to push themselves to their limit.

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.

There is no point staying on the past.

I consider myself a happy person, yes.

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!

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

I love watching the Premier League.

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.

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.

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.'

When you sign a contract, you must respect that.

You cannot have a situation where you think that if you want to attack, then you play this formation, and if you want to defend, then you play this formation.

It is what we are here for - to give the fans magic moments.

How are you supposed to communicate on the pitch when you don't off it?

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.

As a kid, Liverpool was big for us.

You have to love your job.

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

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.

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

We will never play for a draw, as it doesn't make sense. Come on, you make a 0-0 plan, you get one goal after five minutes, and it's finished. The players look and say, 'Now what?'

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

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

If you embrace a project that will require time and patience, then you need something to work on. So the first step of the project is to create an identity. If you don't have an identity, then today you want this player and tomorrow another one. If you have an idea and a shape, then this is how you develop an identity.

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

Goals always come from situations that are not so effective.

The beginning of everything is our defensive organisation. The clean sheet is always the first objective that we have in the game. Always.

When you win, you want to repeat it.

I'm a coach who likes to have the ball, but what I really think is, 'How can you be in charge of the game?' I think, but maybe I am the only one, that the defensive process can take care of the game. Why is that? Because teams wait to defend. If you create something where you go to defend, to steal the ball where you want, it's different.

This is the way I look at the future: day by day.

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

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!'

The goals are the moments of beauty that the fans come for.

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.

If somebody asks for a photo, with a smile, it is nothing.

What you have to become is really strong in what you do. That's the point of building a team. You don't know any other way - it would be absurd to do it any other way.

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.

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.

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