If you’re a talented player, and you’re 20 years old, you should be playing in the UEFA Champions League or in the elite European teams like AC Milan, Juventus, or Chelsea.
It feels fantastic to be in the Champions League.
I know there are certain powers who would rather have the champions be Eastern European because there’s more money in it.
People always say, ‘Oh, there haven’t been many black champions,’ but on the other hand, there are a whole lot of white people that never won a belt either.
If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world.
It’s easier to fine tune in club football, and you have the chance to win the Champions League every year.
I’m not aware of any plans for a European Super League, but the Champions League is a Super League.
The Champions League is unbelievably big. The whole show before, the fans, the players you play against, the people who are going to watch the game, the pressure – it’s very special.
I want to win the Champions League, which is a dream for all footballers, for a second time.
Liverpool manager Bob Paisley signed me from Crewe in 1981. We were the champions in my first season and I went on to win many honours.
When the club who won the Champions League wants you, the decision is very easy.
Coming to Europe and winning the Champions League with a great club like Bayern is everything I can ask for.
The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.
A guy like Anderson Silva is one the greatest champions we’ve had.
When I watch the Champions League, we see great clubs.
When I moved from Metz to Monaco, we reached an advanced stage in the Champions League, and we played against Real Madrid. It was one of most beautiful days of my life because I was lucky enough to get a signed shirt from the football legend Zinedine Zidane.
I had a dream to play in the Champions League, so every time I play for Real Madrid, and in the Champions League, I try to enjoy it as much as possible because it’s the realisation of a dream.
It’s no disgrace to play against the world’s champions and lose by one service break in the last two sets.
Champions league progression takes years.
Maya Moore is one of the greatest champions in basketball, male or female.
Brendan Rodgers is leading Leicester City back into the Champions League – and he is a future Manchester United manager.
Not many players played in a World Cup and Champions League final.
True champions aren’t always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.
There’s been a lot of champions before me, and I’m sure there will be ahead of me.
I feel very good at Atletico, and being here allows me to play in the Champions League.
It’s very rare in British boxing that you have two fighters who are both undefeated and who are both world champions.
To not play in the Champions League is a disappointment, something negative.
Chelsea is a very demanding club. They need to be in the Champions League and they need to win trophies because that is what the club has been doing for some time.
I am here to win every possible title, including the Champions League.
My idea is to play and win the Champions League. It is a dream I have had since I was little.
How many African American champions have there been over the course of WWE’s history? It’s something that was the elephant in the room. Nobody wanted to talk about it, but it was important for us to address it.
In wrestling, you’re talking about a fraternity of champions, and I got a chance to be a part of that Olympic championship club. And anyone that ever won the Olympics in wrestling, there’s something different about them.
If someone can make a team champions, it is Tevez.
Many substitutes have won the Euros, World Cup or Champions League without contributing anything.
To be appointed as captain of the team of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017, which includes some of the finest and most attractive cricketers of this generation, is the perfect icing on the cake.
For me, I think the Champions League is the biggest trophy, but playing for your country in the World Cup… it’s hard to choose.
We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They’re much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low – the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.
My value can only go higher if I can perform well in the Champions League.
Sometimes in the Champions League, I don’t think it’s always the best team that wins it. It depends on how you play on a certain day.
The best teams of Europe play in the Champions League.
It’s not easy to say no to a club like Barcelona. They are European champions, they’re in a lovely city, and I like Spain a lot.
I want to win trophies, even the Champions League. You have to be ambitious.
It feels great being in the Champions League.
I do not think it is very easy to win away from home in the Champions League.
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
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.
Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we’ll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.
Sometimes having the best players is not enough to win the Champions League.
A Champions League final is so rare to play.
Look at guys like Demetrious Johnson, who’s the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. Why isn’t he on the largest pay scale? Why are there people that aren’t even champions making more money?
Finding myself in a final with Atletico makes me happy. Why? Because I know the feelings of all the people at the club – because I know how the players feel. They need to see their team as champions, so we have more fans every day.
I’m a professional, so any match against Barcelona in the Champions League is special to me.
Both my kids are international swimmers and national champions.
Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.
If you’re going to be champions you’ve got to deal with the challenges that come along in many different ways.
Until I was 16 years old, I didn’t even know there was a Champions League.
I have the dream of playing at a World Cup and winning a Champions League.
You want to play in finals, and they don’t come much bigger than the Champions League final.
Even when I was at the top, playing in the Champions League final for Liverpool and playing at the World Cup for England, I’ve never let it go to my head.
I always give my best in training as if it was a Champions League final.
I have always wanted to play in the Champions League and who wouldn’t want to play for the European champions?
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 feel like I’d be able to gain so much by playing big games on a regular basis, including the Champions League.
In the Champions League I’m no expert. Pep is the expert, he’s won it twice as a manager.
Let’s face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative – there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own.
We knew that you don’t get to be world champions without a struggle.
There is no bigger motivation than playing in a UEFA Champions League final.
You cannot plan for the Champions League: the competitors are always overwhelming. It is a big new challenge every year.
What I would like most is to play in the Champions League and try to win the Premier League once. Or better – a few times.
Our supreme goal is to win the Champions League, that’s what we’re here for.
Neymar is the representative of the Brazil team, of what we’re all about. Being in the squad alongside him is always a pleasure, and we always have more chance of being champions if he’s around.
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.
Pep always keeps inventing new things. He is magic. I hope he can win the Champions League with City.
Nike doesn’t want to make products for everyone – they want to make products for champions.
