Andre Villas-Boas Quotes

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Andre Villas-Boas

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 17, 1977

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

Andre Villas-Boas

The club is more important than any individual.

Andre Villas-Boas

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

Andre Villas-Boas

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

Andre Villas-Boas

Playing in Italy and scoring goals is difficult.

Andre Villas-Boas

By the time that I left Porto I had a few offers, and I probably chose the club that I shouldn't have gone to.

Andre Villas-Boas

Celebrations are for the players to express themselves.

Andre Villas-Boas

I want to discover Japanese culture and Japanese football.

Andre Villas-Boas

I have never used Prozone.

Andre Villas-Boas

Everyone around the world watches Bayern.

Andre Villas-Boas

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.

Andre Villas-Boas

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

Andre Villas-Boas

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.

Andre Villas-Boas

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

Andre Villas-Boas

The mind and how the player feels is much more important for us, rather than statistical data.

Andre Villas-Boas

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.

Andre Villas-Boas

I don't solve problems on my own. I solve them with my group of people and my group of players.

Andre Villas-Boas

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.

Andre Villas-Boas

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

Andre Villas-Boas

Coaching in England was a positive experience but also many negative things happened.

Andre Villas-Boas