Quotes About Perseverance

Right from the beginning I wanted to test myself against the best, against real champions.

I dropped out of high school so I could attend another kind of school, an internship of champions. I dropped out to live my dreams.

If you become world champions, there is nothing to top that. It's the result of many years of work, good decisions inside the association, good training and good players.

I grew up with champions around me, so I knew what it was like to be ambitious and to work very hard.

To make my entire career at Lyon doesn't bother me as long as they continue to have the development and ambition to have a competitive team, even if we're not certain to win the Champions League.

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.

Everything can change in the Champions League.

When I was a child, I had it in my head to play in the Champions League and win it.

To arrive and try to fight for the Champions League, to try to fight to be the best in the world, you need time.

I can see myself winning a few Scudettos and at least one Champions League.

The thing in the Champions League is not just the talent. It's not being a team. It's the experience as well.

Even if you have won it before, you just want to keep winning the Champions League. Every season, the ambition is to win the competition.

It's not enough to be top in your league if you don't do anything in the Champions League.

Nobody likes to lose a Champions League semi-final.

It's not easy to win the Champions League.

When I was a little child, I watched every game in the Champions League, and now I can play it for myself.

Every year, you have to have the feeling to achieve the Champions League. Otherwise, we should stop playing football.

All Champions League games are difficult.

In the Champions League, everything is possible.

Everyone who has played in the Champions League wants to get back to playing in it again.

Sometimes having the best players is not enough to win the Champions League.

The Champions League is very difficult.

I know what a Champions League final is like.

Come on, everyone wants to win a championship, but a lot of players have had great careers without one. Sometimes it just doesn't happen for whatever reason.