Zitat des Tages über Champions League:
When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system.
I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.
It's true that PSG have the ambition to win the Champions League, so they could be interesting for a player like me.
Dennis Bergkamp is, in my eyes, still 'The Master'. The fact that he never won the Champions League, the European Championship, or the World Cup does not take anything away from his greatness as a player.
I want to play Champions League every year; I want to be at a big club and win trophies. That's my target.
At the end of your career, what you will keep in your head is the memory of winning trophies - Premier League, Champions League. Those are the only things you remember.
I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.
The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.
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.
Chelsea belongs in the Champions League, and we must stay there.
The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.
You know when you have a manager that is always successful, is always in the title race and always playing in the Champions League.
I believe the Champions League has all that magic because it gathers all the best European teams, and that gives you the feeling of trying to be the best. That's why the Champions League has this special kind of emotion.
I had a lot of pressure in my career: when you play at World Cup or Champions League final, there is pressure on your shoulders.
At Atletico, I've improved at the highest level, and in the Champions League, I've turned a corner.
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.
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 don't think I am a great. I think I've done nothing. I've done nothing in soccer. I've won leagues, but I haven't won the Champions League, the World Cup, the Euro. Winning the Euro in France, that wouldn't be bad.
The Libertadores is sensational, but the Champions League... The first time I heard the anthem was a really special feeling. It's like being in a video game; it's living the dream of every child.
When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d'Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don't know what will happen. This pressure is inside you - you always have it.
Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.
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.
Playing for a Champions League place is not enough. It is not my target, but it is a target we have to take.
You need to have a big squad; it's important when you're in the Champions League, with the amount of games we've got.
The high point of my career was winning the Champions League. No one will ever erase that from my memory, in the same way that no one will ever erase the fact that I did it in a Manchester United shirt.
It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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.
Every player dreams of playing a Champions League semi-final, and we will give everything.
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.
