Quotes from Shinji Kagawa

I'd like not only to test myself against Barcelona, but top teams from the other leagues.

Sendai is the place that helped me build my basement.

I never lost a game against Bayern Munich until Pep Guardiola arrived. He made them better.

In the Champions League you need a certain level of perseverance, strength, dedication to scoring over 90 minutes.

The Spanish league is my favourite. The attacking mentality suits my style.

Dortmund's style of football really suits me.

From my own personal experience, I can tell you that things I achieved in the J2 league meant a lot to me.

Klopp never wanted us to get carried away. He never wanted us to think of ourselves as champions, even though we were top of the league. He wanted us to focus on ourselves, not to listen to what people were saying about us. It was all about the next game and only the next game.

My value can only go higher if I can perform well in the Champions League.

If you play well in the Champions League you get your name out there.

Football has given me so many opportunities in life and now I want to play my role in supporting others through the game.

Football inspires and excites people like nothing else on the planet, and what I love about Common Goal is that it channels this passion in a way that makes a real difference to disadvantaged communities around the world.

Those who can keep achieving results are the big players at the big clubs. If you cannot get the results, you just can't play and move away.

When I watch the Champions League, we see great clubs.

At Manchester, and at Dortmund before that, I'm surrounded by great players who make it easy for me to play.

Every day I am learning how to trouble my opponents on the left, how best to cause them problems with my movement. But I would still like to be capable of taking up more positions.

I'm not the tallest or biggest player, so I have to move my body more.

Dortmund is like family to me, and I'm proud that they had not forgotten about me and welcomed me back.

It would be good to play in the Premier League.

When I left the club, I said in an interview that my chapter with Borussia Dortmund was not over. I just wanted to realize my dream of playing in the Premier League.

I think I can handle the pressure and am pretty confident I can adapt to the style of the Premier League.

I realise the Premier League is a very tough league and I know I have to be stronger.

I am pretty confident I can adapt to the style of the Premier League.

Since Japan is little known in football in the world, we want to play good football and make a huge impact so that we can make the world realise the presence of the Japan football team.