I’m very pleased to play for Manchester United. I want to hep the team get into the Champions League.
No alliance in history has done more to prevent war, and no alliance is more rooted in the values America champions, than NATO.
In the Champions League, you can focus on a single game and play in exactly the style you need.
You cannot underestimate Zidane’s achievement of winning the Champions League three times in a row – it must have taken superb skills to motivate the likes of Ronaldo, Luka Modric, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema et al to have the desire to become serial Champions League winners.
Playing in a competition like the Champions League is important for a player; it makes you feel much more of a professional in this sport.
Not everybody is following every league in the world so the Champions League is a platform where everybody can see what you’re still able to do.
If I had a choice between the Champions League and the Golden Boot, then of course it would be the Champions League – no doubt the Champions League.
Definitely the aim is to be champions.
I don’t think getting punched in the face is too fun. I keep going because this is what I am. Every time I fight, this is why we live. We have to feel this. That’s how we become stronger. That’s how we become champions.
In Champions League home games, you expect to win.
My biggest dream is to win the Champions League.
We just must make sure we give everything we can to become champions.
This is what champions do: champions defend. They always say you’re not a champion until you defend your title.
Every player’s dream is to play Champions League and the World Cup.
There are so many talented fighters. And then there are fighters who must work like butchers. They are champions because they work hard every day. I believe I have a little bit of talent, because I learn very quickly, but I’m like the butcher.
I went from winning three Champions League titles to not playing.
What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.
We want to make our dreams come true and the Champions League is a dream for all of us.
Playing so many important games in a prestigious competition like the Champions League, I have experience to call upon, and I’m thankful for that. I hope the other players can feel more confident because of that.
The Champions League has always been a target of mine. I do want to play at the top.
I would like to unify and test myself against other champions.
Venus told me the other day that champions don’t get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn’t get nervous and just do the best I can.
The Champions League has been the prime objective of my career.
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.
Roger Ailes champions women, whether it’s Paula Zahn, who worked for Fox, Greta Van Susteren – we’ve always had a woman in primetime – Megyn Kelly, myself; I had a primetime show.
Both were wonderful experiences, but I’ve always said the Champions League campaign where I was most important was 2003. However, the one the fans remember is 2007, which shows how important goals in a final are.
I’ve played in a few Champions League matches and got into quarter-finals – sometimes unluckily knocked out – but you have to prepare like any other football match: you have to play the game, not the occasion. That’s been instilled in me since I was a kid.
The torch needs to be held by somebody that’s great. Because champions are made in the dark, baby. We don’t need the lights and the spotlight. That stuff is for everybody else, man.
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.
The Champions League nights are special for the fans, too. You can feel it on the streets.
I don’t agree that we have to win the Champions League to be a success.
Winning the Champions League was the best thing that has happened to me at a club, the best thing that happened to me in my life.
The Pentagon isn’t a place that champions individuality and innovation.
When I was a little child, I watched every game in the Champions League, and now I can play it for myself.
Jay-Z is a hero, Sam Walton is a hero – these are not exactly communitarian champions. These are – in some cases, literally; in others, just figuratively – gangster heroes. That’s who is worshipped: people who get away with it.
When it comes to cup competitions and the Champions League, it’s always about going as far as we can. Getting out of the group stage is the first objective, then after that, we will see.
You know, who would have thought a guy from Canada playing at a club like Bayern Munich and winning the Champions League? I never could have guessed it.
In my first interview in the UFC, I asked them to throw me among the lions. I wanted to fight the best, and that’s what the UFC did. Ex-champions, future champions – that’s what I wanted.
What can you say about Messi? A guy who has won five Ballon d’Ors, four Champions Leagues and has scored 97 goals in a year. There is no need to win a World Cup to certify that talent.
I always had a frisson when I heard the Champions League music. To play in that competition, to score a goal in it, is something special for me.
All away games in the Champions League are difficult.
When Pep Guardiola accepted the Manchester City job, he would have asked himself one question about the club’s current squad: is this a team that can win me the Champions League?
I want to fight the top champions, I want to fight for titles.
In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, ‘Breakfast of Champions’ and immediately fell in love.
Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times… we all had to deal with the Raiders.
Obviously, I want to do well in the Champions Trophy, which is like a mini World Cup with all top teams participating.
Johnny Gargano is someone I’ve known for years – we’ve been EVOLVE Tag Team Champions together; we’ve wrestled each other many times over the years.
There’s pressure and it’s nerve-wracking, particularly in the Champions League. So you need to be able to free yourself to a certain extent and have fun in what you are doing.
To arrive and try to fight for the Champions League, to try to fight to be the best in the world, you need time.
America is the mecca of boxing, and they’ve had some great champions here. It’s good to establish your skills and let people know what you’re about in the States.
My favourite game has to be winning the Champions League against Chelsea in 2008, because nothing can top that. My favourite goal was at Wigan in 2009, which came late in the game and pretty much clinched the title for us that year.
To play in the Champions League is an experience a player of 33 may not have had in his whole career. To be doing that at 18… well, it’s such a bonus.
I wanted to train jiu-jitsu instead of capoeira because the mat was soft. It was better than training capoeira on the hard floor. I started reading jiu-jitsu magazines, reading about the world champions, and becoming one of them became my goal.
In my case it was a sustained effort. I was fortunate to have the backing of my parents to start off with and towards the Beijing Olympics the Mittal Champions Trust came into the picture and they helped me a lot.
The Champions League mustn’t be experienced like an obsession because, when you have an obsession, you never win!
We want to play on the highest level and the Champions League, other than the Premier League for us, is the highest level.
At other clubs I have been, at Juventus, at Barca, we had two ‘ships’: one for the domestic league and another for the Champions League.
To declare the Cubs champions after 108 years was the highlight of my career.
When the club offers you the job, they say what the club expects from you. If the club says to you, ‘I want you to win the Champions League, the Premier League, the Carabao Cup,’ you say, ‘OK, you want to win this and this and this? Can you give me this and this and this?’
Fashion’s impact reverberates through our society, which is why it is so important that it celebrates diversity and champions inclusivity.
You don’t want to play one year in the Champions’ League and go out. You don’t then establish yourself as a big club.
I would agree to some extent that on the Champions Tour that there is a greater premium on putting than the regular tour because of the course setups.
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.
