Top 1200 Champions League Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I was in the American League for 16, 17 years, and I think it's a really tough league to compete in.

The Premier League is a league that I've always wanted to play in. The pace is high.

As far as moving to 130, I got tired of waiting for the other champions, none of whom wanted to fight me. I'm hopeful that with the move to 130 lbs. will come better fights, particularly against the other champions, so we can make our dream of becoming undisputed champion.

You realise you have to be physically strong when you come to the Premier League because it is a very intensive league.

The Premier League is a physical league if you want to compare it to other leagues.

I've played almost every sport in the book and basketball was one of the sports that I played. We were state runner-up champions and state champions in basketball in high school.

I know it is really hard to win a league, especially the Premier League, but we have experienced players here at Liverpool.

We have this culture valued at Uber, which we call the champions' mind-set. And champions' mind-set isn't always about winning. It's about putting everything you have on the field, every ounce of passion and energy you have. And if you get knocked down, overcoming adversity.

The best league in the world is the Premier League, so I am so happy to be here playing with and against big players.

Removing myself as a footballer, I watch the Premier League. It's a great league. Fantastic football is played in it.

Experience is a big thing when playing in the Premier League - it's a different game to any other league.

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

Obviously the leagues are different. The Premier League is much more competitive than the Dutch league.

This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.

I watched the Premier League regularly in Germany. It is the most famous league in the world, and I have always enjoyed it.

I say always that the Premier League is the best league in the world, and it's an honour to play here.

I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

The Premier League is tough because, as soon as you lose a couple of games, you're out of the race for the league.

I was in a struggling team in League One and I've seen how tough it is when you are trying to scrape out points at the bottom of the league.

I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

The atmosphere in the Premier League is fantastic, the stadiums are always full and it's an attractive league for spectators.

People want us to fail because we have won the league so many times. United won the league long before I was here.

I must say, the standard of football we play in League Two is better than I thought. I think, if you compared it with the fourth division in other countries, such as Italy, Germany and Spain, League Two is much, much better - and that's very positive. The intensity and the tempo is as high as the Premier League.

What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

I experienced the G League in two forms: one as an assignment player, and then one of actually being in the G League after I got cut by the Bulls. Obviously, both situations are different. You actually sort of still get treated like an NBA player when you're on assignment. When you're in G League on contract, you're down there for real.

Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.

The Premier League is the toughest league in the world, so it's never going to be easy to get minutes.

My mentality's always the same, whether it's summer league, D-League, NBA, wherever it is.

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league.

I'm not going to say the Dutch league is naive but they all play to win. In the Premier League, you have teams with a different idea.

I would love to win the Premier League because it's the strongest league in the world.

The Premier League is a notch above. It's maybe the best league in the world.

The Premier League is the best league in the world, and it is very well regarded if you get a chance to play in it.

The Premier League is a different kind of league, in terms of physical play.

You can be in the league and still feel like you're not in the league. That was the point I was at when I left Toronto.

I am already a veteran because I've been in the league for three years and I've played big games in the Euro League.

No matter the competition, Premier League or Europa League or cup, I want to win. This is the truth.

Even though the Premier League is a special league, I have always wanted to stay loyal to Juventus.

As an outsider, I have to say that the Premier League is a very attractive league.

I love the French league very much. The league allowed me to shoot to the European level.

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

For me the Premier League is the best league in the world. And London is a great city. My family love to live here.

The league is crazy. It's hard to win in this league, and you have teams coming at you every week with players just as good as you.

I want to win games, want to win championships. I want to go to the World Cup. I want to win a World Cup. I want to play in Champions League. I want to have fun throughout all of that, and I want my family to be a part of that through the entire path.

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.

A lot of people have been saying I am obsessed with the "making history" thing. But it's what pushes me, it's what drives me, it's a huge boost knowing that I am going to be the first. There's a long list of Olympic champions that have become world champions, but none of them are from England.

I watch the Premier League, the Spanish and Dutch leagues, and a little bit of the German league.

I mean no offence, but we know that the French league is not the same as the Spanish or English league, where there's more difficulty.

The Premier League is the best league, and I've enjoyed every second of it.

There are so many things that a goalkeeper coming to the Premier League has not experienced in a different league.

The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

Eleven years in the league, I haven't had a dirty play. I haven't made a name in this league by playing that way.

If I retire from this league and I haven't won at least one championship, I'll feel like all my years in the league would be a failure.

I realise the Premier League is a very tough league and I know I have to be stronger.

I love the Premier League. It's obviously a very talented league.

As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.

Those huckleberries in the National League don't want to do anything that the American League wants to do.

If my dreams can happen to me, your dreams can happen to you. Champions are not made on the track or field; champions are made by the things you accomplish and the way you use your abilities in everyday life situations.

It was my dream to have an opportunity to play in a big league like the English league.

My wish is that soccer in the U.S. become on the same level like the Premier League, Spanish league, or the Bundesliga.