Part of me worries about upsetting people, because we all have perceptions about Olympic champions.
You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they’re on to something else. There’s just not a great love of the sport there.
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.
Obviously, you want English players playing in the Champions League against the very best players in Europe.
I want Real Madrid to win it all in 2011-12. The Champions League, La Liga and the Copa del Rey.
You can only become world champions if you work as a team.
It pleases me to play a Champions League game against a team that has plenty of history.
You need to have a big squad; it’s important when you’re in the Champions League, with the amount of games we’ve got.
I want to be the top scorer of the league, take Everton back to the Champions League, and reach the Brazilian national team.
I’ll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.
I know what a Champions League final is like.
If you can score a lot of goals in Italy, you can do it in the Champions League as well.
We will only celebrate when we are champions and not before.
I want to play in the Champions League and I want to win trophies.
I want to win the Champions League with Bayern.
I have memories of watching the Champions League as a kid in France. We all supported different teams and they were intense moments. Great memories.
I wanted to be a pro wrestler, but my mom didn’t let me. I used to make videos and stuff in the backyard. I had a buddy named Daniel Decker, and we used to have a tag team called the ‘Deck Garra Era.’ We used to make video after video. We were the tag team champions, but then we turned on each other.
My favorite champions is the 1995 championship with the Rockets. We were the sixth seed without home court advantage.
I want to play in the Premier League, the Champions League, and I want to continue playing for England. If I’m going to do that, I have to play for my club and put in good performances for my club because there are other English midfielders who are doing that in the Premier League.
The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.
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.
I helped Real win their eighth Champions League title. I’m proud of that.
There are world champions out there that no one has heard of. I don’t want to be one of those guys.
I’m very happy to have already been welcomed into the LFC family, I’m a part of history having won the Champions League and hopefully we keep making history.
To make my entire career at Lyon doesn’t bother me as long as they continue to have the development and ambition to have a competitive team, even if we’re not certain to win the Champions League.
Liverpool is a great club, and we have to put Liverpool back in the Champions League.
It’s never easy in the Champions League, but you never know what can happen.
The World Cup was the biggest thing ever for the national team, but the Champions League is the biggest thing for clubs.
Whether it’s the Premier League or the Champions League, I can showcase my abilities.
I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates – from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.
Historically, Barcelona win La Liga when they win the Champions League.
Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
Champions League football in the Premier League – you’re talking about the top, big, massive clubs, and it’s not something I think I’d get linked with.
Give kids the chance to be champions.
At the end of the day, great champions can take a good loss and great champions can take a good win, just like they take a loss.
The Champions League is so difficult, It’s like a lottery: sometimes you’re just unlucky.
I’ve got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I’ll make it extremely hard.
If you look at history of athletics in the country almost all champions have hailed from the villages.
Show me a team of the stature of Chelsea, Manchester United, Real Madrid, or Barcelona who is not obsessed with winning the Champions League. If they are not, I’d be surprised why they play in it.
Ancelotti is a coach with a lot of experience. He won the Champions League while at Milan, playing some great football in the process.
I cried after the game when we won the league – it was hugely special to me. The first season we came second and got to the Champions League semifinal, and I knew I needed to come back and win with Chelsea.
Obviously, the Champions League and Premier League are the biggies, and obviously, if you could win any, it would be one of those two.
When Chelsea came to me and said they wanted me to come back, I was happy because I had a special moment here – one of the best in my career. I won the Champions League, the Europa League.
Finishing second and getting in the Champions’ League quarter-finals or semi-finals is fine, but at the end of the day you need to take some silverware.
If you play for a team like Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, or PSG, the aim is always to win the Champions League.
The most passionate fans are from India, and I hope that I can motivate more Indians to pursue wrestling – or any athletics, for that matter – and become champions.
The Champions League is made up of cycles and experience to be acquired.
With what I’ve already achieved in my career – winning trophies and playing in finals, important matches against Real Madrid and Barcelona, winning the Europa League and the Super Cup, and in the Champions League – sometimes you’ve earned the right to say something.
Playing for a Champions League place is not enough. It is not my target, but it is a target we have to take.
I have improved with time by playing for elite teams in elite leagues and the Champions League and with the Spanish national team in World Cups and European Championships.
For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
You always work toward a big goal. Once you achieved it, it’s not that easy. You need a few days. Like winning the Champions League – season over, goal achieved. The pressure drops.
I’m here at Madison Square Garden as world champion and have a world champion’s mentality, the pressures on to defend my belt – this is what champions do.
I have grown up as a player watching many champions like Pirlo and Xavi. I have watched them and tried to learn from how they do things.
A bout between champions has to be considered a big show.
In your journey to the tag of winning-at-all-costs you can still behave, you can still do the right things by not crossing the line. Lot of champions have done it. Look at Rahul Dravid, Steve Waugh.
If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.
It’s a good place for me, Wembley. In 1983, I played for Denmark when we beat England there 1-0, and in 1992, I played for Barcelona when we beat Sampdoria 1-0 in the Champions League final.
It is really nice to play in the Champions League, because we play against the best teams and the best competition in Europe.
The big teams are about the Champions League.
I think we have to get more kids into the sport in order to grow American champions. And the way to do that is that kids 10-and-under have to keep tennis as their first sport.
As far as moving to 130, I got tired of waiting for the other champions, none of whom wanted to fight me. I’m hopeful that with the move to 130 lbs. will come better fights, particularly against the other champions, so we can make our dream of becoming undisputed champion.
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.
As a kid, I used to go and wait at the gates of Melwood or look through the cracks in the wall just see if I could see any of the people I was looking up to, who we all wanted to aspire to become, when we were in the Champions League, the likes of Gerrard, Carragher and Alonso.
