I would love to win the Champions League.
In football, the Champions league semi-final does not allow you to relax.
I am professional, won a Champions League, silver at the World Cup, I achieved big things in football and don’t deserve to go anywhere on loan.
Playing in the Champions League ought to be a pleasure and a joy.
When I was a little child, I watched every game in the Champions League, and now I can play it for myself.
When I watch the Champions League, we see great clubs.
Everything can change in the Champions League.
It’s not easy playing against Barcelona in the Champions League. They are a club with a lot of history.
It’s been a dream of mine since I was a young boy. Even back then, I had decided that one day I would play in the Champions League.
Champions League is a very tough competition.
Maybe apart from the World Cup, the Champions League is one of the most important trophies in the world of football.
I think just playing in the Champions League is a big motivation. When you hear the hymn or the song of the Champions League, it’s a big motivation for every player.
It is truly an amazing feeling to play in the final of the Champions League with the BVB at Wembley. Ahead of my transfer to Dortmund, I definitely hadn’t thought about this being a possible scenario.
It’s pretty hard to predict anything when talking about the Premier League because of the liabilities the teams and the players have when playing in the Champions League and the other cups, too.
People remember the treble in 1999 as if we only had to turn up to collect three trophies. But on that cup run, we were 1-0 down against Liverpool going into injury time, and we turned it around to win 2-1. And everyone remembers the Champions League final in Barcelona, where the same thing happened.
Everyone in the Champions League has quality.
When you are going for every trophy, it is always good to have as many points as early as possible in the Champions League, and then you can concentrate on the league and the Carling Cup.
Tottenham set a points and victories record in my first season, missed out on the Champions League by one point and had a great run in the Europa League. In the second season, at the time I left we had more points than in the previous campaign.
Qualifying for the Champions League is not possible without a player like Dimitri Payet.
Nobody likes to lose a Champions League semi-final.
French football must go as far as possible in the Champions League.
I hope Milan will become the model to follow for Italian teams – it would mean that we had gone far in the Champions League!
To be honest, I was never expecting to be in a World Cup final, a Euro final, a Champions League final, a Europa League final. I’ve done much more than I dreamt, and that’s incredible.
We all want to win the Champions League, it’s one of our goals.
I want to win games, want to win championships. I want to go to the World Cup. I want to win a World Cup. I want to play in Champions League. I want to have fun throughout all of that, and I want my family to be a part of that through the entire path.
It’s great to see that there are Dortmund fans in every stadium. That is something that motivates you, and in the end, you look forward to games even more, especially Europa League or Champions League away matches, when you see how many fans follow us. It is something very special.
In the Champions League I’m no expert. Pep is the expert, he’s won it twice as a manager.
The Champions League is where the best players in the world come together.
In my time here, I’ve seen that Borussia Dortmund has developed steadily. We have become German champions and played in the Champions League.
The Champions League is massive. I’ve had so much experience. I’m only 23, and yet I’ve played so much in the Champions League, and not many players my age would have had that experience.
Playing away is always tough in the Champions League.
I’m fine at Wolfsburg, and I’m happy to be able to play in the Champions League.
Historically, Barcelona win La Liga when they win the Champions League.
The Champions League is one trophy that I need to win.
We need to learn that in the Champions League, the referees are vigilant and quick to whistle.
People wonder what you are going to do after you’ve won the Champions League three times? Win it again, if I can.
If Celtic were to build a team strong enough to regularly compete in the Champions League, I might decide to manage them one day.
Until I was 16 years old, I didn’t even know there was a Champions League.
PSG are amongst the top eight European clubs. They want to go to the next level in the Champions’ League; it is a very big club that would attract any player.
I remember my first time in the Champions League. I was 18, and it was Arsenal against Milan at The Emirates. The night before, I remember I put my music on my iPod. I was lying in bed, and I listened to the Champions League music. That was my Champions League debut, my first time. It was beautiful.
We are Bayern. We have the highest standards, and always want to win everything, so the Champions League is a very big target.
Even if you have won it before, you just want to keep winning the Champions League. Every season, the ambition is to win the competition.
We know how important both competitions are, especially the Champions League since it’s such a special competition, but we want to win the league too. We take it game by game – concentrate on our league games, win them and then start thinking about the Champions League.
You use up a lot of mental energy in the Champions League.
When I was young, I always wanted to play in the Champions League.
Both with Bayern and with the national team, I have a lot of teammates who have achieved a lot more than me – most of them are world champions, European champions or Champions League winners.
There are Champions League matches that have really wowed me, like when I saw the final between Real Madrid and Juventus. There are plenty of other matches too, it’s also something that motivates me.
At Burnley, I’d enjoy myself with my missus and friends, but because at Tottenham we’re playing Saturday-Tuesday, even Wednesday-Sunday, and with the intensity we play at, playing in the Champions League, we can’t afford to have a night out.
Always, against top teams, if you play well, and especially in the Champions League, it’s good.
We all know that the Champions League is the most important competition in the world.
Pep always keeps inventing new things. He is magic. I hope he can win the Champions League with City.
Borussia Dortmund was the best solution for me. I wanted to have an experience abroad and in the Champions League. Then there are the fans – it was said they always supported the team, but I didn’t think like this.
It is a big title to win, but in the Champions League, you don’t need to have the consistency that you need in the league.
For me, winning the Champions League would be an incredible feeling and winning that trophy was one of the reasons I joined Milan.
There are sometimes easier games and others harder, but the Champions League always requires enormous concentration.
To be able to compete in a Champions League final, to win it with Real Madrid and to score was incredible and exciting.
It is really nice to play in the Champions League, because we play against the best teams and the best competition in Europe.
I’m ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that’s the aim with Tottenham – to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
I definitely want to be successful in the Champions League, having never been involved in it before. It’s where the best players prove themselves.
It’s always a good time to play against a team when they come back from Europe, whether it’s the Europa League or Champions League.
United need to be in the Champions League.
There are always surprises in the Champions League.
You ask any player and the Champions League is where he wants to be.
I do not think it is very easy to win away from home in the Champions League.
It is always nice to play for the bigger teams, contesting titles and Champions League rather than relegation.
My ambition is to win the Champions League one day with Tottenham, or the Premier League.
I can see myself winning a few Scudettos and at least one Champions League.
With Wolves we are fighting for the Champions League, I am happy. and I am an important player for the fans and for the team.
I have been able to fulfil nearly all my ambitions at Chelsea. I have won the Champions League, the League, I have won FA Cups here, but you don’t want to stop winning trophies, and being at a big club, you are always fighting to win a trophy.
Why does everyone love the Champions League? It’s because it’s exclusive. Even if you win it, you only play 13 games in that competition in a season.
Of course it would be nice to go to another Champions League final and hopefully win it again one day, but for me, the Premier League is the best trophy to have.
It feels great being in the Champions League.
