Andre Villas-Boas Quotes

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Andre Villas-Boas

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 17, 1977

We can't think after every win that we're playing as we want just because we won a match.

Andre Villas-Boas

I want success. I have expectations and want to look back on a career I can be proud of.

Andre Villas-Boas

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.

Andre Villas-Boas

The team is more important than any individual.

Andre Villas-Boas

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

Andre Villas-Boas

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

Andre Villas-Boas

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

Andre Villas-Boas

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.

Andre Villas-Boas

I wouldn't criticise Carlo Ancelotti.

Andre Villas-Boas

I'm a peculiar type.

Andre Villas-Boas

To be persistent and to have courage is important to get through difficult times and to achieve what you want to achieve.

Andre Villas-Boas

There are a lot of seasons when Porto have been outstanding.

Andre Villas-Boas

I'm a manager who respects club policy.

Andre Villas-Boas

I have no problem dropping players.

Andre Villas-Boas

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

Andre Villas-Boas

In my formative moments, working with Jose was the best time of my life. I was able to learn many things and working with him takes you to another level. You fall in love with him and he becomes your idol. I wanted to be like him, know everything that he knew and absorb all the information he was giving. Then you fall on the wrong side of Jose.

Andre Villas-Boas

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.

Andre Villas-Boas

I think, in the Premier League we have a situation where contacts happen more often than in Europe and the direction of the attack changes more frequently from one team to the other.

Andre Villas-Boas

I have become more versatile after the Chelsea experience.

Andre Villas-Boas

I'm not a religious person, so I just hold on to my self-belief and the belief in my players' talents.

Andre Villas-Boas