Quotes About Champions League

United was my first European club. We won two titles and almost won the Champions League.

If Celtic were to build a team strong enough to regularly compete in the Champions League, I might decide to manage them one day.

In Holland, I have got the buzz back playing as a centre-forward, which is where I perform best. Ajax always appealed to me from when I was young and they gave me a chance to play in the Champions League too.

I've been with clubs who won the league championships in Holland and England, which was brilliant, and to win the Champions League with Manchester United was an amazing experience.

I cried after the game when we won the league - it was hugely special to me. The first season we came second and got to the Champions League semifinal, and I knew I needed to come back and win with Chelsea.

I want my tombstone to say that I won the Champions League with Barca.

The best players want to play for the best clubs in Europe and appear in top competitions like the Champions League.

In the Champions League, you can have a bad game and go out in the semifinal, and nobody remembers what you did.

As a kid, I used to go and wait at the gates of Melwood or look through the cracks in the wall just see if I could see any of the people I was looking up to, who we all wanted to aspire to become, when we were in the Champions League, the likes of Gerrard, Carragher and Alonso.

There are always games where you play for important things, but the semifinal of the Champions League is a responsibility.

Not so many Armenian players are given the chance to play in the Champions League, and this is really important for me, because I want to do everything to impress the children who are watching me playing.

At Atletico, I've improved at the highest level, and in the Champions League, I've turned a corner.

The Champions League is a really tough tournament, and every single game is really special and difficult.

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.

At Burnley, I'd enjoy myself with my missus and friends, but because at Tottenham we're playing Saturday-Tuesday, even Wednesday-Sunday, and with the intensity we play at, playing in the Champions League, we can't afford to have a night out.

I think it's normal that you will lose players if you don't play every season in the Champions League, because that's the intention for every player to be part of that.

I remember, in my first interview after I arrived in Manchester, I said, 'I didn't come here to play in the Champions League - I have come to win it.'

The Champions League and the Premier League are now both huge, but the tradition and history of the FA Cup is still very special.

At Juve you were first or you were nothing. If we went out of the Champions League it was a tragedy. I saw team-mates who did not eat for a week.

Honestly, I don't know why we can't transfer the mentality we have in the Champions League to Serie A.

For a big club, you can accept that the team does not win the league because it is in transition, but you cannot afford to slip out of the Champions League spot.

Real Madrid have that special connection with Europe and Champions League matches. The fans transmit the importance to us and when you play a Champions League game, you get goosebumps, there is no better feeling in the world than that.

I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.

Bayern had no international success in the years before I joined, and my goal was actually to play at the best possible level, which would have meant winning the Champions League.