Top 40 Nuno Espirito Santo Quotes

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

There is no point staying on the past.

I love everything about football.

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

Principe is paradise.

We’re trying to improve everyone. It doesn’t matter if he cost £10 million, £15 million, £200 million. There is always space to do something better.

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.

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.

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.

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

Every game is a chance to improve.

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.

Goals always come from situations that are not so effective.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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