Quotes by Champions League 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 champions-league team giving 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 champions-league games way I came to AS Roma to play in the Champions League Ashley Cole champions-league league play 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 champions-league goal play 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 champions-league football believe 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 champions-league journey winning You cannot make mistakes in the Champions League. Claudio Ranieri champions-league league mistake I've always dreamed to win the Champions League with Real Madrid and we are only one step away to win it Cristiano Ronaldo champions-league real winning 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 champions-league sports thinking The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition. Fernando Torres champions-league ambition play 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 champions-league ambitious play Messi doesn't have to do it in the Premier League to prove himself. The Champions League is the ultimate club competition. If he was in the Premier League, he'd be the best player by some distance. Gary Lineker champions-league distance player The Premier League is the No1 league in the world in many areas. The events, the shocks, the production, the viewing figures, the worldwide audience are by far the best. Do I think at this moment in time it's got the highest quality levels in Europe in terms of Champions League football and domination of that area? In quality terms it needs to rise again to get to that point where it's by far the best in all areas. Gary Neville champions-league football thinking 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 champions-league team taken 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 champions-league football two 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 champions-league stakes cheating 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 champions-league drawing football 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 champions-league beautiful jobs The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more. Lionel Messi champions-league goal opportunity 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 champions-league player years 123»