It’s crazy to be spoken about like Mascherano. He’s won everything: Champions League, La Ligas; he’s been at World Cups.
Winning the league is one thing but for me it was always the dream to win the Champions League.
PSG’s ambition of the Champions League is also mine. I know they have a great project. I want to participate in this project and reach their objective of winning the Champions League.
If I were to describe myself as any particular type of owner, it would be a fans’ owner because you really get great satisfaction when you can go out on the streets and scream you’re No. 1 and you’re world champions.
I play in the Champions League. I don’t have anything to complain about.
You can never know if there will be a second Cruyff, someone with a great personality who can grow up and make it into the squad of the club they love. But what is certain is that, in the Champions League, there will be big clubs producing these players forever.
I played a lot at Bayer Leverkusen. I played in the Champions League and in the Bundesliga. I have played a lot of games, and it was a very good decision to go to Leverkusen.
There’s always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his range well, this person has a great right hand – anytime you fight a champion, there’s multiple things that they do well, and you have to try to take those strengths away.
Anything like having a good season at home for the club, or going as far as you can and having a great Champions League, has its repercussions when it comes to the Balon D’Or winner.
I grew up with two cousins from North Dakota who were junior national champions. They’re a lot older than me and I looked up to them as my older brothers.
I’ve coached UFC champions and stuff before I ever started fighting.
It’s all I’ve dreamt winning a trophy with Chelsea. To go all the way in the Champions League.
There have been great champions in every generation.
The Champions League is very difficult – there are so many big teams in Europe, and one bad day, and you can be out.
If you chart SEC champions over a 20-year period, the one consistent thing to me is you’re not going to win if you don’t have a quarterback. It’s too critical of a position. He decides something every play.
I won three FA Cup finals, two League Cup finals, and played in one of United’s two Champions League-winning finals. But I lost in a lot of finals, too: the FA Cup in 1995, 2005 and 2007, the League Cup in 2003, and the Champions League in 2009 and 2011.
It’s true that PSG have the ambition to win the Champions League, so they could be interesting for a player like me.
I just want to be remembered as one of the toughest champions with his own attitude.
I’ve played two World Cups. I’ve won the Champions League.
I think it’s something great to win the Champions League with Madrid; it’s something special to be at a club that wants to win something, and I hope we can win it again.
Seeing guys like Canelo helps me get better because they are already champions and I want to become champion. Having role models like that helps me a lot.
Nobody thought Real Madrid could win three Champions Leagues on the trot, and they’ve done it.
Everyone wants to play at the top level – everyone wants to play in the biggest tournaments in the world – so, obviously, the Champions League is one.
At a club like Liverpool, you have to win everything possible, and you have to play for both – the Premier League and the Champions League.
It is a pleasure to see Leo, an Argentine, as the top scorer in the Champions League.
When you hear the Champions League anthem, it gives you goosebumps.
I want to be one of the greatest champions of all time. And it’s a good pressure – I need this pressure. Because if pressure is making me work, if it’s making me work harder – it was hard work to get to the championship, to win the championship.
With hindsight, if you want to play for Real Madrid, sacrifices need to be made but I was too young to understand. There are things I shouldn’t have said or done. It was early in my career, maybe too early. I didn’t know it was the only Champions League I’d win, for example.
The likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns were true champions. There were some incredible fights between us, and I was happy to give them all an opportunity to fight me.
Every team has to understand what their ambitions are. If their ambitions are to fight for the title or win the Champions League, you must buy expensive players. Otherwise, you continue to stay in your level. It’s simple.
Juventus has always tried to win the Champions League.
To go to Milan and play against the European champions at the San Siro is phenomenal.
The Europa League is a different calibre than the Champions League.
Emotions always play a part, especially on Champions League nights at the Bernabeu.
I had a lot of pressure in my career: when you play at World Cup or Champions League final, there is pressure on your shoulders.
The champions of globalism are the champions of America’s destruction.
Chelsea is a club which should be in the Champions League every season, which should finish in the top four every season, should be in the title race.
My ambition is to win the Champions League one day with Tottenham, or the Premier League.
I always win. I think, one season with Lazio, we didn’t win anything, but our premier target was to take the Champions League place, and we got into the Champions League.
Domestic titles are very important, but to win the Champions League, you are saying, ‘We are the best team in Europe.’
I want to write a new story in Europe, to make a new history. I want to come to win the championship and play again in the Champions League.
To win the Champions League is huge for everyone.
I think to reach a Champions League final isn’t easy, whether it’s in Europe or Asia.
This is in the plan which I have for my career and my life, to one day win the Champions League and the World Cup.
We have this culture valued at Uber, which we call the champions’ mind-set. And champions’ mind-set isn’t always about winning. It’s about putting everything you have on the field, every ounce of passion and energy you have. And if you get knocked down, overcoming adversity.
It’s always been that opponents get down to business against Bayern specifically because they want to show how desperate they are to defeat the champions.
I think when people say Madrid are playing well and Barca are not and vice-versa, or when one wins the Champions League, it’s better than the other, I don’t think that makes sense. Everyone takes their own path.
I remember Borehamwood, I remember the home crowd, I remember that special moment looking at all of our friends and family in the crowd because I don’t think we could believe we were European champions.
I don’t have a lot of time to lose and I would like to win the Champions League or La Liga. If I could win them both, even better.
My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!
When I arrived, Bayern were sitting at 14th place in the Bundesliga and weren’t in the Champions League. Twelve years later, I left with 23 titles.
If I have no goals, I would retire now. I still have many: to win another league title, to win the Champions League, to win the Copa del Rey. To win the European Championships again.
The Champions League is special. You play at a higher level, so you have to be very focused and have greater motivation.
You only appreciate what it feels like to win the Champions League after you’ve seen it snatched away from you.
Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don’t know what they’re talking about.
I was brought on and scored, so I will never forget my Champions League debut.
I pray every night to win the Champions League with City.
My favorite Duke player ever is Steve Wojciechowski. He called me one day congratulating me on my success thus far, and I was like,’I appreciate it, but man, please don’t congratulate me. I know when you guys start the season, you’re not just trying to be 10-10 or ACC champions, you’re trying to win it all.’
The Manchester City fans have their opinion on the Champions League. It is down to us, as players, to create the atmosphere in there and help the fans.
Let me say that if the political arena is your choice as you work to keep our democracy strong and our essential freedoms accessible for all, then that is what you should do, and I salute you. We need champions in all walks of our civic discourse.
If we become world champions it may open the door to the Fifa Ballon d’Or, although I think it would be difficult. Every 10 years a centre-back may win it once.
I carried the WBO belt for five years and defended it 15 times against 10 world champions.
All Champions League games are difficult.
We want to win everything: League, cup, Champions League and Supercopa.
I hope that one day I will be able to play with City at the Sanchez Pizjuan in a Champions League game; it would be an incredible experience.
