Quotes from 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.

Returning to England is definitely not in my plans. I had talks with Liverpool, a club I admire a lot, but like I said it's not in my plans, although life takes many turns.

We have to improve on a weekly basis, on a game-to-game basis.

You don't expect opposition fans to praise the other players.

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

My passion for football makes me live it very intensively over 11 months and dedicate myself to that, but I think life allows you to enjoy other things.

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

I'm no dictator. I encourage freedom of choice in football.

The spotlight is something that I don't think is disturbing to me. It doesn't disturb me whatsoever.

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

I've had my fill of media sensationalism and false promises.

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.

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

I am a person who always puts the team in front and I do it publicly.

England was bad for me, I was not flexible in my ideas.

I learned to be more flexible when I went from Chelsea to Tottenham. I always thought more in the long run without thinking in the short term.

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.

Qualifying for the Champions League is not possible without a player like Dimitri Payet.

Racing runs in the blood of my family and my dream was to do the Dakar one day.

To compete in the Dakar Rally is a lifetime ambition for me and is something I know I have to do.

I've been very well received by all the people I've met in St. Petersburg.

Regarding why I left Inter, it was because I wanted the extra edge to fulfil my ambitions as a professional coach, so I took the risk to find my own job at Academica.

I am an individual who has that hunger for success and I want to keep it that way.

Ideally when you set up for the first game of the season... to have put the team to bed would be the ideal situation.