The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.
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 to right, it's good luck. But I don't like black cats!
Every team and club has its own personal goals and objectives, and I'm only concerned about mine.
Sometimes a polemic tweeter is more important than a normal view.
I truly believe you have to take things as they come, win or lose, and keep believing in how you want to do things and how you want to play.
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.
Every game is a chance to improve.
As a kid, Liverpool was big for us.
You have to be ready for anything and everything and accept everything the way things are.
When you have someone that manages, coaches you, and you follow, and you believe, and you do everything that you can because you believe in that idea in your leader, that stays forever. That is the impact Jose Mourinho had on me.
I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.
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!'
My interpretation of football is to stay humble, work hard, and things will come.
How are you supposed to communicate on the pitch when you don't off it?
Goals always come from situations that are not so effective.
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.
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.'
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.
If somebody asks for a photo, with a smile, it is nothing.
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.
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.
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?'
Our ambition is to win every game regardless of the opponent.
I consider myself a happy person, yes.
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.
I live in peace.
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 sells more, criticism or compliments? What do people like more? They enjoy blood.
I have this absurd feeling that I can win every game with any team.
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.
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 love watching the Premier League.
I was a goalkeeper, but through my career, I spent almost as much time sitting on the bench as I did playing.
I learned a lot from the coaches I played for.
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.
It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.
When you sign a contract, you must respect that.
The goals are the moments of beauty that the fans come for.
It is what we are here for - to give the fans magic moments.
Golf is a good time, valued time.
When you try to build an identity based on one idea, the easy part is to stick with the good things that you do.
This is one of the challenges we have: knowing that playing without the ball is just as important as when you have the ball.
The first introduction I had with English football was in the FA Cup in the early '80s.
You have to love your job.
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.
Of course you learn a lot as a player when you pay attention to managers when they speak to you.
I would say, 24/7, I am thinking about football.
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.
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.
