Quotes from Andre Villas-Boas

I think persistence and resilience are very important.

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.

I say it sincerely, I'm fine in Marseille, I don't want to look for other clubs or other options.

I think if you don't have a style, it makes you invisible in football.

Playing in Italy and scoring goals is difficult.

I want to discover Japanese culture and Japanese football.

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

This game is based on good values more than anything else.

That image is now associated with the Portuguese coaches: the ability to adapt, to arrive and win, to assemble good teams and good structures is undoubtedly one of our brands and I think that's the main fact for which we are most respected around the world.

What we have been doing at Tottenham with my staff is a reaction to the mistakes we made at Chelsea. We did not do everything wrong there, but we could have done better.

I love having the mountains nearby so I can get on the motorbike or bike and get off to go for a walk.

Only by learning from experiences are you able to deal with them better the next time.

I have no problem dropping players.

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

You always have to be very, very careful with statistics. It doesn't mean that we negate them completely; we just don't use them to the extent that people might think.

I didn't take the Porto job nor the Chelsea job because Jose made the same steps.

The objective is the group performance, but every single individual requires a different response from a manager - you can't be the same person to each player.

I love the unpredictable part of the game.

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.

In football and paper things look different but surprises happen, it's why I don't believe in having a favorites role in every game we play because the unpredictable can happen.

The Premier League is a circus, it's constantly changing. It's full of emotion, ups and downs, unpredictability and this makes it the spectacle that it is.

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.

I don't see myself as a one-man show.

I strongly believe that'players have to express themselves to their full potential, they must be able to make choices during the game.