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Quotes About Champions League

I played in the Champions League constantly for 12 or 13 years in my career, and I reached only two finals. I know how difficult it is to get to that point.
~ Michael Ballack
I wouldn't lie and say it's not disappointing to have reached so many semis and a final and not won the Champions League.
~ Roberto Di Matteo
Football is football but life is life. I am so happy at being a father and reaching the Champions League final.
~ Erik Lamela
Real Madrid are one of the main teams in Europe. They are a team which has won the Champions League the most times, a very good team, and known throughout the whole world as well.
~ Fernandinho
To be able to compete in a Champions League final, to win it with Real Madrid and to score was incredible and exciting.
~ Marco Asensio
If you want to reach the Champions League final, you have to play the big teams like Real Madrid.
~ Giorgio Chiellini
I set the record at Real Madrid in the Champions League, but Ronaldo is one of the best players in the world.
~ Raul
With hindsight, if you want to play for Real Madrid, sacrifices need to be made but I was too young to understand. There are things I shouldn't have said or done. It was early in my career, maybe too early. I didn't know it was the only Champions League I'd win, for example.
~ Nicolas Anelka
I want Real Madrid to win it all in 2011-12. The Champions League, La Liga and the Copa del Rey.
~ Raul
Nobody thought Real Madrid could win three Champions Leagues on the trot, and they've done it.
~ Steve Nicol
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.
~ Casemiro
You're going to watch football all your life - you're going to watch the Champions League and the Europa League - and I don't have a great feeling when I watch the Europa League, but when I watch the Champions League, I have a great feeling.
~ Henrik Larsson
At Bayern, if you don't win the Champions League, it's always a criticism because we have a great team, but most of the people forget that there are other great teams, and it's not that we aren't special.
~ Jerome Boateng
When I was playing for Real Madrid, we competed in the UEFA Champions League most of the time and won it three times. When we didn't win we always ended up in the later rounds.
~ Roberto Carlos
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.
~ Eden Hazard
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.
~ David Luiz
I want to leave PSG one day having won the Champions League. That's my biggest dream.
~ Thiago Silva
I have been able to fulfil nearly all my ambitions at Chelsea. I have won the Champions League, the League, I have won FA Cups here, but you don't want to stop winning trophies, and being at a big club, you are always fighting to win a trophy.
~ Ashley Cole
I am thrilled to participate in the World Boxing Super Series, the Champions League of boxing.
~ Callum Smith
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
If we win the Champions League, everyone is a better, more recognised player, but if you win an individual award and nothing with your team, it means nothing.
~ Fernando Torres
If you want to win the Champions League, you have to have talent, good players, luck in the draw, and, in certain moments, the right referee.
~ Jupp Heynckes
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.
~ Julian Nagelsmann
You must believe in the players, their quality, and send the message that working together it was easy to win the Champions League and difficult for anyone to beat you.
~ Raul