Nuno Espirito Santo

You have to love your job.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

I live in peace.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

There is no point staying on the past.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

Every game is a chance to improve.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

Representing your country is what you want.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

Goals always come from situations that are not so effective.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

When you win, you want to repeat it.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

I love watching the Premier League.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

What you have to become is really strong in what you do. That's the point of building a team. You don't know…

— Nuno Espirito Santo

In Portugal, seeing a black cat is a bad sign; it's bad luck. But they tell me if it crosses from left…

— Nuno Espirito Santo

When you realise that the ball is faster than you, you say to yourself, 'OK, I love the game. I want to…

— Nuno Espirito Santo

Football is a passionate game, and the emotions are intense. As long you respect the people around you, I don't see any…

— Nuno Espirito Santo

I will not ever change my principles. I will not do it. We have a 'how.' This is the most important thing…

— Nuno Espirito Santo

We work on our set pieces for every opponent. It's a moment of the game that requires a lot of hard work,…

— Nuno Espirito Santo

If you embrace a project that will require time and patience, then you need something to work on. So the first step…

— Nuno Espirito Santo

I'm a coach who likes to have the ball, but what I really think is, 'How can you be in charge of…

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

I love everything about football.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

When you sign a contract, you must respect that.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

If you love your job the way I do and the way we do as a team and what we want to…

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo

You have to be ready for anything and everything and accept everything the way things are.

— Nuno Espirito Santo

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

— Nuno Espirito Santo