Champions Quotes - Page 16

You cannot underestimate Zidane's achievement of winning the Champions League three times in a row - it must have taken superb skills to motivate the likes of Ronaldo, Luka Modric, Gareth Bale, Karim Benzema et al to have the desire to become serial Champions League winners.
Eniola Aluko /
Achievement
Champions League
Desire
League
Likes
Skills
Superb
Taken
Underestimate
Al
Champions
Motivate
Row
Serial
Winners
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I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.
Fernando Torres / Soccer Player
Kids
Barcelona
Real
Team
Atletico
Captain
Champions
Leagues
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As a kid, I used to go and wait at the gates of Melwood or look through the cracks in the wall just see if I could see any of the people I was looking up to, who we all wanted to aspire to become, when we were in the Champions League, the likes of Gerrard, Carragher and Alonso.
Trent Alexander-Arnold /
Aspire
Champions League
Cracks
Gates
If I Could
Champions
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Klopp never wanted us to get carried away. He never wanted us to think of ourselves as champions, even though we were top of the league. He wanted us to focus on ourselves, not to listen to what people were saying about us. It was all about the next game and only the next game.
Shinji Kagawa /
Carried
Champions
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Of course, becoming champions is something we all want, but I think that the best 'championship' for a manager is to see players like Koke, Lucas Hernandez, Angel Correa - lads who have come up from all the way down in the lower divisions - become professionals of a high standard.
Diego Simeone / Football Manager
Angel
Best See Way
Champions
Divisions
High Standard
Lads
Lower
Standard
Professionals
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Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.
Joe Greene / Football Player
Baltimore
Chiefs
Cities
Eight
Kansas City
Miami
Playoffs
Raiders
Super Bowl
Beat
Bowl
Champions
Jets
Stretch
Super
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I want to play in the Premier League, the Champions League, and I want to continue playing for England. If I'm going to do that, I have to play for my club and put in good performances for my club because there are other English midfielders who are doing that in the Premier League.
Jack Wilshere / Soccer Player
Champions League
Premier League
Champions
Premier
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It's great to see that there are Dortmund fans in every stadium. That is something that motivates you, and in the end, you look forward to games even more, especially Europa League or Champions League away matches, when you see how many fans follow us. It is something very special.
Mario Gotze /
Champions League
Champions
In The End
Matches
Motivates
Stadium
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We're a miserably violent species. But there's a complication, which is we don't hate violence, we hate the wrong kind. And when it's the right kind, we cheer it on, we hand out medals, we vote for, we mate with our champions of it. When it's the right kind of violence, we love it.
Robert Sapolsky /
Cheer
Complication
Hate
Species
Violence
Vote
Champions
Hand
Mate
Medals
Right Kind
Wrong Kind
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Looking from the outside at English football, at Spanish football, it's more interesting, and they have the champions and the celebrities that they want to see. But with the passion that Italians have for football, the pride that they have, I don't think the game will stay that way.
Gabriel Batistuta / Soccer Player
English Football
Pride
Celebrities
Champions
Italians
Spanish
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The top clubs in the Premier League benefit very much from the fact that there are six teams on a very high level. They have so many games against each other so that they practically play Champions League the whole year. That helps them very much to persist in the international games.
Ralph Hasenhuttl /
Champions League
Clubs
High Level
Persist
Premier League
Champions
Practically
Premier
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I could easily be defending my title against top contenders in the Top 10, but if they haven't been champions or their record's not perfect, it doesn't really excite me. It doesn't motivate me. But that's why I'm facing guys like Dejan Zlaticanin, Sergey Lipinets, undefeated champions.
Mikey Garcia /
Not Perfect
Undefeated
Champions
Me Not Perfect Perfect
Defending
Excite
Facing
Motivate
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If multi-stakeholder Internet governance is to survive an endless series of challenges, its champions must commit to serving the interests and protecting the rights of all Internet users around the world, particularly those in developing countries where Internet use is growing fastest.
Rebecca Mackinnon / Blogger
Commit
Developing
Developing Countries
Governance
Serving
Users
Champions
Fastest
Protecting
Survive
To Survive
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All of Europe's biggest clubs place the Champions' League as their top priority these days but only one of us can lift the trophy. The domestic league titles are still crucial of course, but I think most players will tell you the Champions' League is the one they want to win most of all.
Jaap Stam /
Champions League
Clubs
Crucial
Europe
League
Titles
Biggest
Days
Champions
Course
Domestic
Players
Lift
Priority
Tell
Top
Trophy
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I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.
Lupe Fiasco / Rapper
Focused
Viewpoints
Walks
Champions
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Seeing Mexicans in the media is rare. Seeing role models on TV is rare. So who do we look up to? We're not seen on football fields or basketball courts. So we look up to fighters; they're Mexican. They are out there fighting, representing their people, and winning champions. We look up to them.
Cain Velasquez / Mixed Martial Artist
Mexican
Models
Representing
Role Models
Rare
Champions
Courts
Fighters
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What puts you in a different level is if you win the Premier League, and you're capable of challenging every season for the Premier League, and if you play Champions League, and you really believe, and you're a real contender one day to win the Champions League. That's my objective in Tottenham.
Mauricio Pochettino / Soccer Player
Champions League
Premier League
Champions
Contender
Different Level
Objective
Premier
Puts
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I remember my first time in the Champions League. I was 18, and it was Arsenal against Milan at The Emirates. The night before, I remember I put my music on my iPod. I was lying in bed, and I listened to the Champions League music. That was my Champions League debut, my first time. It was beautiful.
Alexandre Pato /
Arsenal
Bed
Champions League
Debut
First Time
League
Lying
Milan
Time Music Beautiful
Champions
Ipod
Listened
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Women's football will always be different from men's football, but that doesn't mean you cannot still appreciate it. OK, so it might be a bit slower than the men's game, but then League Two football is slower than the Champions League, and it doesn't stop people turning out to see their local teams.
Millie Bright /
Champions League
Men Women Always
Be Different
Champions
Women Men Football
Slower
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People remember the treble in 1999 as if we only had to turn up to collect three trophies. But on that cup run, we were 1-0 down against Liverpool going into injury time, and we turned it around to win 2-1. And everyone remembers the Champions League final in Barcelona, where the same thing happened.
Peter Schmeichel / Footballer
Barcelona
Champions League
Liverpool
Trophies
Time Remember People
Champions
Remembers
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Prior to 'Action' and 'Justice League 1,' there was no label 'superhero' for a superpowered being. It's really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they've agreed to be our champions.
Jim Lee / Artist
Action
Comfortable
Emergence
Extraordinary
Superhero
Agreed
Amongst
Champions
Label
Prior
Superman
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I wanted to be a pro wrestler, but my mom didn't let me. I used to make videos and stuff in the backyard. I had a buddy named Daniel Decker, and we used to have a tag team called the 'Deck Garra Era.' We used to make video after video. We were the tag team champions, but then we turned on each other.
Josh Segarra /
Buddy
Deck
Tag
Backyard
Named
Champions
Daniel
Pro
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When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.
Gareth Bale / Soccer Player
Attacking
Block
Champions League
Premier League
Team
Winning
Champions
Defend
Premier
Teams
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In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.
Jess Walter / Author
Breakfast
Junior High
Library
Vague
Named
Champions
Eventually
Grabbed
Grade
Immediately
Junior
Junior High School
Novels
Seventh
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My favorite Duke player ever is Steve Wojciechowski. He called me one day congratulating me on my success thus far, and I was like,'I appreciate it, but man, please don't congratulate me. I know when you guys start the season, you're not just trying to be 10-10 or ACC champions, you're trying to win it all.'
Mike Posner / Singer
Appreciate
One Day
Player
Please
Success Man Me
Champions
Favorite
Congratulate
Duke
Guys
Season
Steve
Thus
You Guys
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There are two things I will always remember. First, a shot against Derby that hit the inside of the post but didn't go in, and we could only draw 2-2. And then the really big chance against Bayer Leverkusen, two minutes from the end of the Champions League semi-final, when I shot over the bar. That hurt a lot.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer / Football Manager
Champions League
Derby
Hurt
League
Minutes
Inside
Hit
Bar
Shot
Champions
Draw
Post
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When you manage a big team like River Plate or Madrid, they are used to winning titles. The people are happy, but they are used to it. When you have an achievement like I had in Villarreal, reaching the semi-final of the Champions League, finishing second in the league, it's more than winning a title. It's more.
Manuel Pellegrini / Football Manager
Achievement
Champions League
Finishing
Madrid
Manage
Reaching
Champions
Plate
River
Title
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UFC is a moneymaking machine. The most important thing for this organization is a brand and its marketing. They have a couple of good fighters, and there are also some very good champions, but they are trying to keep everyone at the same level. The most important thing for them is the promotion, not the fighters.
Fedor Emelianenko / Politician
Marketing
Organization
Promotion
Ufc
Champions
Fighters
Moneymaking
Most Important Thing
Same Level
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I like guys who know how to implement a strategy. The ones who make a fight look easy. But there's no easy fight, even if you win in 30 seconds, that only means you were able to execute your strategy correctly and induced your opponent to make a mistake. Those are the champions. That's why they are the champions.
Royce Gracie / Mixed Martial Artist
Seconds
Strategy
Champions
Correctly
Execute
Implement
Induced
Opponent
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Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.
Lucy Powell / British Politician
Commonwealth
Cycling
Local Community
Pool
School
Swimming
Swimming Pool
Years
Champions
Frequently
Local
Olympic
Schools
Young People
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Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali.
Brin-Jonathan Butler /
Boxing
Cases
Cuba
Muhammad
Offers
Rejected
Revolution
Temptation
Ali
Champions
Defied
Dollar
First Place
Island
Resisted
Stevenson
Suggestion
Triumphed
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Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.
Gagan Narang / Olympic Athlete
Faith
Sports
Country
Cricket
Imagine
Industry
Luxury
Make It Happen
Champions
Invest
Full
Create
Sport
Happen
Realise
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It was very important to me to join an organization that has an established track record of helping young fighters grow into world class athletes and champions. Gladiator Challenge has been a home to such fighters as Quinton Jackson, Rashad Evans, Urijah Faber, Tyson Griffin, Chael Sonnen, Michael McDonald, and many others.
Henry Cejudo / Olympic Athlete
Track Record
Tyson
Home World Me
Athletes
Established
Champions
Fighters
Gladiator
Griffin
Jackson
Join
Mcdonald
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My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'
Zach Mcgowan / Film Actor
Bronx
Brothers And Sisters
Younger Generation
Family Childhood Me
Americanized
Sisters
Celebrations
Champions
Family Childhood Father
Jig
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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 / Soccer Player
Opportunity
Champions League
Favourite
Finals
Goal
League
Truth Is
World Cup
Champions
Cup
Stayed
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All the champions - you go and ask Mike Tyson or Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Lennox Lewis and myself included, and I'm sorry for putting myself in line with all the other great names - but the champion's attitude is it doesn't matter who is in front of me, I am going to conquer this person and win the fight and knock the person out.
Wladimir Klitschko / Professional Boxer
Attitude
Conquer
Fighting
Mike
Sorry
Tyson
Louis
Champions
Included
Joe
Lewis
Marciano
Mike Tyson
Rocky
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Sikhs were considered the champions of fairness, uplifting people, protecting and defending human rights. Defending equality. So when someone sees a Sikh, the turban identifies a person who's going to stand up for rights, even if you disagree with them. The turban is supposed to be a beacon. That someone who is going to help you out.
Jagmeet Singh /
Uplifting
Disagree
Fairness
Human Rights
Beacon
Champions
Defending
Protecting
Sees
Stand Up
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People always use the word 'obsession' in a negative way, which I'm always amazed by. We are not obsessed in the way that, if we don't win it, we'll just go and shoot ourselves. That's not the case. We are obsessed with the Champions League because this is a great competition to win. In a positive way, we try to search for the victory.
Petr Cech /
Positive
Amazed
Champions League
League
Negative
Obsessed
Obsession
Case
Champions
Shoot
Word
Negative Way
Positive Way
Search
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I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was 'act now, think later' - but the discipline and reading changed me.
Anthony Joshua / Professional Boxer
Boxing
Discipline
Educated
Hopkins
Mike
Tag
Tyson
Life Home Me
Louis
Bernard
Champions
Joe
Learnt
Mike Tyson
Started Reading
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Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?
Apolo Ohno / Short Track Speed Skater
Dream
Positive
Achieve
American History
Creating
Helping Others
Impact
Mindset
Olympian
Pay
Positive Impact
Pressure
Winter
Champions
Continually
Decorated
Forward
Help Others
None
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The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems.
David Malpass / Economist
Bigger
Clear
Commitment
Derivatives
Financial
Growth
Inflation
Layers
Momentum
Powerful
Regulation
Stable
Swings
Trading
Unstable
Champions
Washington
Encourages
Fed
Instead
Interest Rates
Meanwhile
Problems
Rates
Reduce
Underlying
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Kevin Hitchcock, the goalkeeping coach at QPR, is an old mate, and I came to work for him on the understanding that I was first choice. If he'd said to me, 'We're also going to sign someone who's won Serie A five times and the Champions League and is one of the biggest names in South American football,' I would have thought twice before signing.
Robert Green /
American Football
Champions League
Hitchcock
Signing
Work Football Me
Champions
Mate
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It is always difficult, but when you have been a manager for a while with different teams, sometimes you were only playing once a week, trying to avoid relegation. When you have experience, you know all about the different feelings. Clearly, I would prefer to be fighting for the title or for the Champions League, but you must accept the situation.
Rafael Benitez / Football Manager
Champions League
Fighting
League
Situation
Accept
Prefer
Avoid
Champions
Clearly
Manager
Once A Week
Teams
Title
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