Nuno Espirito Santo Quotes

I'm a coach who admires attacking football. I want my teams to look to win.

I know my background was defense, but I'm not a defensive coach who wants to win 9-7 every week.

That's the most important thing in football: you need to take chances when you get them.

We never played for 1-0 and then defend. We always went for the second goal and the third.

I loved being an attacker so much. I mean, it wasn't so much that I didn't think defending was fun or anything like that. It was just - growing up, that's kind of all I knew - was attack, attack, attack.

I never look to contain. I always try and take wickets.

You want to be on the offense and make the defense react. I feel like that.

I love coaches that think more about attacking than defending. As a football fan, I think that's wonderful.

I love offensive coaches.

My philosophy is always to play forward because goal is the reason of football.

If you play an intense way, an aggressive way, we are good, we can score, we can create chances.

Attacking football is what I want to watch as a manager; it's what I want from my teams. It's easier to be destructive and get people behind the ball than to be constructive and creative.

That was part of coaching: to teach your receivers how to get free.

It's about taking the game to the opposition, always believing in yourself.

My priority is possession. Attack, get a lot of players in the opposition half, take risks.

One of the things I'd bring to Villa if I was in charge is the idea that winning is important in football, but winning while playing offensive football is the best of all.

I don't really think about it. I just try to find my opportunity and then attack.

The big thing is to win, but to look at the long-term, you need one way to play, and the philosophy is not only to put 11 players on the pitch and play football.

I feel like I am definitely an attacking player. I don't really know where specifically that is, whether it's centrally or out wide. I do feel like I just naturally have a mindset to go to goal or create goals or things like that.

My philosophy is always to play for a win.

You can play perfect football, lots of one-touch stuff, and you lose. But that's not what you want, you want to win.

You've got one football and a lot of times, defenses dictate where the ball goes.

Maybe other managers would see their team score one goal and then prefer to go back and counter-attack, then try to score the second goal. A lot of those managers are the best managers at the moment, but for me, it's very important to continue the way I play.

Sometimes in the Premier League, you are in a game where you can't play nice football because you just wouldn't win it.

I just challenge the big guys and attack them, and use my quickness to my advantage.