Best Champions Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Yes, the Champions League is always the high point of any player and even more so playing it here in Lisbon, at home, I am very happy and it is very good for me.”

“You need a bit of luck to win the Champions League.”

“In the Champions League all teams are strong.”

“It is true that when you lose a Champions League final you always want to have a second chance against that same team in order to beat them.”

“Jiu-jitsu has a really long and rich history in MMA, but compared to the past, jiu-jitsu is not as important as it used to be. Less and less people who are only good at jiu-jitsu become UFC champions.”

“I want to win more Champions Leagues with Bayern. There's not a lot of people that have won it a lot of times, so I want to win more. Just to win more trophies as a team and maybe as an individual player as well.”

“In the Champions' League not only do you need the best team, but you cannot make any mistakes because there are no chances to fight back like in the league.”

“If you're one of the biggest teams in the world, which obviously Manchester United are, you want to be in the biggest competition. With their history of winning the Champions League, that's where they want to be.”

“Obviously the pressure around the Champions League final is always special, is always different.”

“We all want to be in a position where we can say we are champions, where we can have this championship.”

“When it's time for the Champions League, I'm very excited and I watch most of the games, both men and women.”

“We would love to win the Champions League, that's the one we want. I think every year that's what we shoot for.”

“Even current champions, there might be somebody who's not even ranked yet and their skill set will impact them in a way that will affect that champion negatively. It's not the rankings. It's not this matchup versus this matchup. It's skill set versus skill set and that's going to give that person a problem.”

“Of course, I want to fight against the other champions but sometimes you cannot do it because they are busy, but we have had good fights and I am happy with that.”

“To have a winning mentality in the Champions League you have to be there in the semi-finals, touch the finals.”

“It's been my dream all my career to go and follow in my brother's footsteps. He won the Champions League and that is something I have also wanted to do throughout my career.”

“Especially in the Champions League games - it's the biggest stage, for me - and to have that pressure is really enjoyable.”

“I remember we had a terrible start to the 2002 World Cup, losing to Senegal when we were the reigning world and European champions.”

“It is great to win away in the Champions League.”

“I think he's the best, though I've had many great coaches: Fernando Santos, Carlo Ancelotti, Felipe Scolari. However, Mourinho brought something different. He brought ambition because in those days in Portugal it was difficult to imagine that one of our clubs could win the Champions League.”

“To win the Champions League, a team doesn't just need 11 professionals on the pitch, it needs 11 Lions, if you can use such an expression in Munich.”

“Look at my record, beaten 10 world champions.”

“Obviously the Champions League, is the whole of Europe and a thing which every kid dreams about growing up.”

“Of course the Champions League is a real goal.”

“Because we have many UFC champions, but not much double champs, I want to be a double champion.”

“I've always said that Champions League games are special; you have to give respect to your rival and it doesn't matter that they are not in their best moment.”

“The Champions League games are always tough.”

“It's complicated to referee a Champions League semi-final.”

“If you look at my record just on paper, it looks horrible, but people who know me and people who train with me at American Top Team who are former champions believe in me and encourage me.”

“We're in this to be champions and not to be the opening act. Not to be a mid-carder.”

“The Champions League is a knockout competition, I think anything can happen, and obviously much of our attention is focused there and the possibility of going far in the event.”

“I haven't won that many titles in my career and to win the Champions League is something which inspires me to play and train everyday.”

“I want to play in the Champions League because then you play against the biggest teams and the biggest players and everybody will enjoy this.”

“I've trained with Eddie Alvarez, Michael Chandler, and they are champions in the UFC and Bellator.”

“To come here to ATT with all the people you get to see on TV, all the champions, all the world-class fighters, you get humbled really fast. That happened to me, and I had to deal with a lot of emotions.”

“I believe that we will see a lot of great champions come out of the Philippines.”

“Lifting the Champions League trophy would be something Juventus deserve.”

“At the end of the day, there's a line full of people that want to fight Canelo and there's champions that maybe fought better opposition than me, but the reason why is because these people didn't want to fight me.”

“Honestly, I didn't expect my call-up. I was just playing my game and will continue giving my best. Rest will be taken care by selectors. If they think I am good enough, they will take me in. Champions Trophy is a very big stage and there will be lot more opportunities for me in the coming future.”

“There is a magical feeling when the Champions League music sounds at the beginning of each game, it is the biggest club competition and is the trophy that every player wants to have.”

“To be playing in a Champions League final is something to cherish.”

“I'm going to wait until I'm 20 before I start calling out world champions.”

“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.”

“Champions win and defend it wherever they need to defend it.”

“This is what champions do. They go out there and they beat whoever they put in front of them.”

“It is very sad to see real champions finishing plus-20, and I don't think that is the spirit of the game.”

“Everybody wants to play in the Champions League every season, but we have to be realistic.”

“I've raised two strong women to be champions of kindness and I'm so proud of them for that.”

“It pleases me to play a Champions League game against a team that has plenty of history.”

“Brendan Rodgers is leading Leicester City back into the Champions League - and he is a future Manchester United manager.”

“Obviously, if you're able to become a two division world champion - not many are world champions in their life or their career. I have the opportunity to do this.”

“Juve are not a club who sell their champions.”

“Finishing second and getting in the Champions' League quarter-finals or semi-finals is fine, but at the end of the day you need to take some silverware.”

“If someone can make a team champions, it is Tevez.”

“For me, winning the Champions League would be an incredible feeling and winning that trophy was one of the reasons I joined Milan.”

“It's in my dreams, being champion and staying champion and being one of the major champions in the sport.”

“One needs to be of a mindset that to be champions of the world anyone can be beaten, and that's what we want, what we dream about.”

“Until I was 16 years old, I didn't even know there was a Champions League.”

“Does it help Dutch teams in the Champions League because they don't have to be at it in the league? I think it does. I experienced the disparity.”

“It's definitely a nudge for your ego when you realize, 'Hey, I've only lost to champions and former champions and, you know, title challengers,' and stuff like that.”

“The best teams are becoming stronger and stronger in relation to others in the main leagues and another league is in fact already being born beyond the Champions League.”

“Especially in the Champions League there are many very good opponents. It is all about taking one game at a time.”

“Fashion's impact reverberates through our society, which is why it is so important that it celebrates diversity and champions inclusivity.”

“It feels fantastic to be in the Champions League.”

“Too many points are being won or lost on the back of bad decisions which could cost clubs a place in the Champions League or send them down.”

“We want to win everything: League, cup, Champions League and Supercopa.”

“Our supreme goal is to win the Champions League, that's what we're here for.”

“I knew that was going to be the last chance to play in the Champions League final - I was desperate to win, I put a lot of pressure on myself. Finally I got hold of that cup - it was the defining moment of my career. I got really emotional and nearly fainted on the pitch.”

“When you're a kid your dream is to be decisive in a Champions League final, and I managed to do that.”

“Xavi has won the Champions League three times, the European Championship twice and the World Cup. He's a real football player, a man who focuses on his football, hard work and training instead of the glamour, and that is why he has stayed at such a high level for so long.”

“I hope Milan will become the model to follow for Italian teams - it would mean that we had gone far in the Champions League!”

“There's different kind of champions. There's the champion that becomes champion and they're not champion for long. And then you have the guy who becomes champion and he stays at the top for like a decade. And those fighters tend to be very intelligent.”

“You can't have a No. 1 fighter when you have three undefeated champions. It's just the dumbest thing in the world. Let's just be honest. You can't have three undefeated champions of the world.”

“The best teams of Europe play in the Champions League.”

“Seeing guys like Canelo helps me get better because they are already champions and I want to become champion. Having role models like that helps me a lot.”

“There are world champions out there that no one has heard of. I don't want to be one of those guys.”

“Mbappe always performs whether that's in Ligue 1, Champions League or with the France national team.”

“The Premier League is always difficult - Champions League or not.”

“We want to make our dreams come true and the Champions League is a dream for all of us.”

“Winning the Champions League is what you dream about when you are a small child.”

“The Champions League is maybe the most prestigious competition in the game and if you don't win it, as much as we are a great team, you feel like there's always something missing.”

“The Champions League is more important than the Scudetto.”

“We all want to win the Champions League, it's one of our goals.”

“Winning the Champions League is the dream.”

“You can only become world champions if you work as a team.”

“I've followed Dortmund since I was seven and they beat Juventus in the Champions League. I was intrigued by them because I know how passionate their fans are.”

“We will give everything for the FA Cup, Champions League and Premier League.”

“I'm capitalizing on a lot of mistakes that champions made before me. I hear a lot of guys say if they were champion again they would do things differently and respect people more. I plan to do that while I'm still champion.”

“I've been on cruise control with my opponents, even though I fought some very good champions, undefeated champions.”

“We know how important both competitions are, especially the Champions League since it's such a special competition, but we want to win the league too. We take it game by game - concentrate on our league games, win them and then start thinking about the Champions League.”

“I grew up with two cousins from North Dakota who were junior national champions. They're a lot older than me and I looked up to them as my older brothers.”

“I have always wanted to play in the Champions League and who wouldn't want to play for the European champions?”

“The Champions League has been the prime objective of my career.”

“A club that plays in the Champions League is the goal, but I don't have a particular one in mind.”

“The Champions League is, in terms of club football, the most prestigious one. And if you don't win it you will never be named one of the greatest teams, no chance.”

“Football is definitely present in the tennis world. Given the mix of nationalities that exists in the changing rooms, there's inevitably a bit of a rivalry between the players, especially in terms of the UEFA Champions League or competitions in which national teams compete.”

“To declare the Cubs champions after 108 years was the highlight of my career.”

“If we become world champions it may open the door to the Fifa Ballon d'Or, although I think it would be difficult. Every 10 years a centre-back may win it once.”

“I want Real Madrid to win it all in 2011-12. The Champions League, La Liga and the Copa del Rey.”

“I want to score goals, give assists and win the Champions League.”