Nuno Espirito Santo Quotes

Tactics are just a part of football because the players are playing.

It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.

I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.

The better you can prepare your players and the more you can put their minds to it is really important.

I keep my focus on the team and concentrate on the best possible match preparations.

You can come up with whatever tactics you want as a coach but if you don't have the tools to execute you will struggle, and if you don't have willing players that are ready to commit to the cause than you will struggle.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

I know that not everybody gets to coach an NFL team, and I want to do that as well as I can all the time. That's my motivation. I want to help my players to be as good as they can be.

You hope to bring your 'A Game' to any game, and of course you do in a final. You hope to bring experience, fitness, communication skills, motivational skills.

When I'm playing in a close game, I'm out on the floor only trying to help the team win.

Football always changes. There are always new players coming in at your club or young players coming through with your club or England. You have to be ready, given 100%, improve, and get better.

You can only win if you have good players.

I have always said that managers stay in a job when they win football matches.

I try all the time to improve in the game, training all the time, and to help my team with assists or goals.

Everything is focused on the coach. It's what happens in football.

Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.

I think every manager is the same. Three days before the Premier League starts, every manager is selfish that way. They want the players fit and ready.

Each manager has their own ideas that they want to get across to the players, and how to do it.

Coaches understand that pressure is part of the rush of coaching. The challenge of trying to outplay your opponent is part of the fun, the adrenaline, the preparation, seeing your team evolve. It's why coaches become coaches.

Coach K was fine with the way I played defense.

I just coach my team. I just focus on coaching my team.

In football, it is a question sometimes of the mentality, understanding the players, the atmosphere, the confidence.

Defense is gonna help me in particular and help my team, so that's what I've really focused on.