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

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

If you are hoping for a Champions' League final or winning a title, it's the same. You are working for a result.

I think it's clear to see that Lyon plan to continue to win the Champions League and be the best team in Europe.

The Champions League mustn't be experienced like an obsession because, when you have an obsession, you never win!

People wonder what you are going to do after you've won the Champions League three times? Win it again, if I can.

We're going to be the underdogs again in Istanbul on the 25th, but that suits us. (on the Champions league Final)

When you're in the semi-finals of the Champions League, you need to be really good and need a little bit of luck.

It is not so easy to turn yourself into one of the big clubs in the Premier League and also the Champions League.

During my career, I've have a lot of satisfaction, but I miss the Champions League. I'd like to win it with Inter.

The Champions League is more interesting to watch than international football and the quality is superior as well.

In the Champions League you need a certain level of perseverance, strength, dedication to scoring over 90 minutes.

This is in the plan which I have for my career and my life, to one day win the Champions League and the World Cup.

Bayern Munich made it possible for me to achieve the greatest wish of any footballer: Winning the Champions League.

Maybe apart from the World Cup, the Champions League is one of the most important trophies in the world of football.

It's true that PSG have the ambition to win the Champions League, so they could be interesting for a player like me.

It certainly is a very difficult group,. We're still bleeding after the Champions League final and want our revenge.

You have to build your squad every year to do better; to win the Champions League is very difficult as we have seen.

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

There are sometimes easier games and others harder, but the Champions League always requires enormous concentration.

This game is about engagement and respect, whether you're playing in the Champions League or in the fourth division.

The most important thing is to win the Champions League because you can win the Ballon d'Or and not stay in history.

The Champions League is very difficult - there are so many big teams in Europe, and one bad day, and you can be out.

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.

Every goal is hard work, especially in such an excellent league as the Bundesliga; or even take the Champions League.

Of course I have dreamed about that - and about showing off the Champions League trophy to the cows back in Liencres.

The best teams in Europe play in the Champions League, and when you face them, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

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.

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

Domestic titles are very important, but to win the Champions League, you are saying, 'We are the best team in Europe.'

In Spain, I'd taken Villarreal to league runners-up and the quarter-final and then semi-final of the Champions League.

The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.

The Champions League is a big ambition, and all the footballers want to play in it; it is a very important competition.

When I signed for Lyon, I pictured myself lifting the Champions League trophy, and I don't think that has ever changed.

The players don't sit in there and think, 'We have to make the Champions League.' They want to play well in every game.

To win the Champions League and possibly the Euros in the same season would be incredible, a feat achieved by very few.

To be able to compete in a Champions League final, to win it with Real Madrid and to score was incredible and exciting.

Everyone benefits from a strong Paris Saint-Germain - the club itself, the French league and also the Champions League.

To win the Champions League for a second time or even to have been in three finals and won two of them is a bit special.

The World Cup was the biggest thing ever for the national team, but the Champions League is the biggest thing for clubs.

The Champions League is special. You play at a higher level, so you have to be very focused and have greater motivation.

It's crazy to be spoken about like Mascherano. He's won everything: Champions League, La Ligas; he's been at World Cups.

You cannot plan for the Champions League: the competitors are always overwhelming. It is a big new challenge every year.

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.

Obviously, the World Cup is nice and the Euros is really nice as well, but I have always dreamed of the Champions League.

What I would like most is to play in the Champions League and try to win the Premier League once. Or better - a few times.

It is a big title to win, but in the Champions League, you don't need to have the consistency that you need in the league.

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

We want to play on the highest level and the Champions League, other than the Premier League for us, is the highest level.

Some of my closest friends, the England lads, have played in the Champions League, so it's a big thing to be there as well.

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