Roberto De Zerbi was a much relieved man after his side narrowly escaped relegation following a 1-0 victory over Everton.
Tottenham came into the game needing at least a draw to stay in England's top-flight, however, a first half opener from João Palhinha, followed by a brilliant stoppage time save from Antonin Kinsky was enough to secure all three points.
"I'm happy, I enjoyed today, the beginning of the day until now.
"Football is nice because if you give your best, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, after tomorrow, you receive back everything from football. It's incredible.
"My players played a fantastic game, as a spirit, as a behaviour, as an attitude, but also as a quality of the play, especially in the first half, they played very well and I'm proud.
"We deserve this day. We deserve this game. We deserve this win. We deserve everything of today. I think we deserve to stay up, because we made 11 points in seven games and we deserved more."
Focus shifts to building a 'new' team
De Zerbi also made it clear that his new target is to begin next season with his "dream" team so that Tottenham can avoid a similar situation.
He said: "From tonight we have to start to organise and to build a new team. I don't think we have not to change too many players.
"We have 10, 11, 12 players good enough to stay, good enough, like players, like people. Then we have to complete the squad with the first level of players. The first level of players, because we suffered too much.
"I suffered a lot, but I think the fans, the club, the board, the players, they suffered too much. We are Tottenham and we can't suffer like this until the last second of the last game to stay up.
"I will be stronger. I don't want to decide alone because football is a group - sporting director, scouting, CEO - but my target now is finished, to stay up.
"My target is to start the pre-season with the team I have in my dream, my head."