Top 50 Quotes About Champions League
#1. You know, I'd actually say Lionel Messi. He's so remarkable, watching him play he's probably still undervalued. When you're scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there's no value that's too high.
Billy Beane
#2. We're going to be the underdogs again in Istanbul on the 25th, but that suits us.
(on the Champions league Final)
Steven Gerrard
#3. I need to be playing in the Champions League.
Luis Suarez
#4. How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break. They've Riise sitting on the bench who's a different class to this fella.
Johnny Giles
#5. It certainly is a very difficult group,. We're still bleeding after the Champions League final and want our revenge.
Paolo Maldini
#6. Earlier on in the season I'd have been very surprised to think we could win this competition because there were some fantastic teams in it.
(on the Champions League)
Steven Gerrard
#7. My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.
Luis Suarez
#8. The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.
Steven Gerrard
#9. I'm looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and to be playing for Arsenal in the Premier League and Champions League. I will give my best to Arsenal and want to make all the supporters happy.
Alexis Sanchez
#10. It disturbs me that Liverpool are not in the Champions League and fighting for the Premier League.
Luis Suarez
#11. But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.
Steven Gerrard
#13. You certainly get used to winning in general. Winning the Champions League is a very particular feeling, but it's really the journey that makes it special. Every journey that brings you toward a win is important.
Clarence Seedorf
#14. I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!
Ian Holloway
#15. We were almost getting used to playing without fans in the Champions League. Jokes aside though, I think help from our fans will be indispensable for such a big match.
Roberto Mancini
#16. Cristiano Ronaldo has done massive things in both the Premier League and in the Champions League, but Messi is the best though and I am convinced that next year he will win the Ballon d'Or.
Yaya Toure
#17. If I wanted to have an easy job, working with the big protection of what I have already done before, I would have stayed at Porto - beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me.
Jose Mourinho
#18. Barcelona are always a candidate to win the Champions League.
Luis Suarez
#19. As club captain all I want to do is help us get back up the table and into the Champions League.
Steven Gerrard
#20. Drawing a comparison to football, it could be said that the Spanish economy has, during this legislature, into the Champions League of the world economy, however bad that may seem to some.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#21. When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.
Jamie Carragher
#22. We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.
Arsene Wenger
#23. I've always dreamed to win the Champions League with Real Madrid and we are only one step away to win it
Cristiano Ronaldo
#24. They (Bayern Munich) lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League to Real Madrid last year, and the year before that were beaten in the final by Manchester United, so their European pedigree is second to none.
Simon Brotherton
#25. Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come.
Dennis Bergkamp
#26. The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
Fernando Torres
#27. To win the Champions League with Porto, you have to be tactically acute
Paul Merson
#28. I'm no longer thinking of Madrid. That dream is dead. The only thing I dream about now is Manchester United and winning the Champions League again in Rome.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#29. I came to AS Roma to play in the Champions League
Ashley Cole
#30. When I think of Arsenal, my favourite personal memory that I recall is scoring my first goal for the Club - away to Lazio in the Champions League. It was important because when you join a new club, you really want to score your first goal. It's where everything started for me at this club
Robert Pires
#31. I do not need to play in the Champions League to be happy
Mats Hummels
#32. All of us at Juventus agreed Manchester United were the best side we met in the Champions League. They have so many talented young players and can only get better and better. Giggs is truly world class
Zinedine Zidane
#33. Manchester United have risen to the pinnacle of the English game at a time when the rewards are so high - thanks to the ticket to the Champions League - that they have resources that only a handful of other sides, through merit or the exploitation of the people of Russia, can approach.
Phil Cornwell
#34. When we played at Celtic Park for Bayern in the Champions League it was unbelievable and I think all our players said the same thing afterwards. The atmosphere was just totally unique. I've played in lots of big games and stadiums but I've never witnessed fans making that much noise in 90 minutes.
Owen Hargreaves
#35. The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#36. I just wanted to jump into the stands and start celebrating with those wonderful fans.
(on reaching the Champions League final)
Steven Gerrard
#37. It is always a danger when you have a big game ahead, but there is only one way to prepare well for our Champions League game - and that is to do well tomorrow. Therefore, I feel there is a lot at stake for us tomorrow. It is a massive game for us.
Arsene Wenger
#38. Give me a great Champions League game or an exciting Premier League game ahead of an international match and I'd love that to reverse. A lot of people have lost interest in England games, it is quite hard to watch.
Michael Owen
#40. I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.
Gordon Strachan
#41. We need to go there and make sure we bring that cup home. and if we do succeed, then we'll dedicate it to the fans that have waited so patiently since 1984.
(on the Champions League)
Steven Gerrard
#42. They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change ... I don't have sympathy, no.
Brendan Rodgers
#43. 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.
Gareth Bale
#44. I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.
Jose Mourinho
#45. When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#46. When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d'Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don't know what will happen. This pressure is inside you - you always have it.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#47. If you have a dad who supports Liverpool you always fucking think you can turn anything around. You know! Ever since that Champions League final.
Fredrik Backman
#48. I won't lie, I want to play in the Champions League and challenge for titles,
Pepe Reina
#49. You still remember the bad rounds here, but they don't stay with you as long. The Champions Tour is great, it's competitive and it's a wonderful show, but it's not the real big league. The real big league is the PGA Tour, and we all know that.
Tom Kite
#50. My ultimate dream would be for Derry City to become champions of an all-Ireland league in a united Ireland.
Martin McGuinness
