Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Jones

The on-pitch competition to be crowned champions of Europe can have a significant influence on the position of clubs.

We have played pretty good on the road, and Coach always tells us that champions have to win on the road.

We're going to throw some people into some different events. We might try Michael in the 400, and we might switch our distance runners around a little bit. We're looking to qualify as many people as we can for the Meet of Champions later this month. This week and next week will be a great opportunity to do that.

Bob Bryan

We're going to be the U.S. Open champions playing that match,

Jason Giambi

We have to go play what seems like the World Champions in Tampa. We have to win every day, and we're going to play the team that's actually given us the most problems. We have to play good baseball.

We have to get at least two state champions and two others have to place in the top four. If that happens we'll be in a good place for winning (the team title).

Rafael Benitez

The positive things from Wednesday are that we have one more Champions League point, and we were better than Chelsea,

Paul Rodriguez

We're talking about champions when there were real weight classes, too. Now, you can have a light lunch and be eligible to fight for a title in a heavier division.

That's all this is. But I'm still hoping there will be a couple of champions up there for us that will keep things moving along.

Glenn Roeder

Not winning the Champions League seems to have hit him hard, and obviously it's the second year running now. It seems to have really irritated him and the players.

Jay Haas

Not playing well on the Champions Tour was disappointing to me.

India has several world champions in cue sports who want it to be a part of the commonwealth games as well.

I'm proud that our seniors can go out at home on a high note. They've been successful and had a good run and the fact that they are going out as repeat district champions is something to hang their hat on.

I'm just thinking about what's in grasping distance for us, and that's a place in the Champions League.

Scott Harrison

I 'm delighted to be back in Glasgow in front of my home fans. I want to send out a global warning to the other champions with this fight.

Henri Camara

I hope to make a major contribution to the team's results and help us get into the second stage of the Champions League for the first time.

Jay Haas

None of the other guys played. The Champions Tour was off last week, so maybe we had a leg up there, just being in competition.

Fernando Morientes

Not being able to play in the Champions League is a shame but I probably wouldn't have played much had I stayed at Madrid.

Tom Kite

Nothing has changed just because I'm getting older. I'm a golfer who has wanted to play in the Open since I was a teenager. Just because I'm on the Champions Tour does not mean that I shouldn't want to play in our national championship.

Rafael Benitez

It's very important for the club, the manager, the fans and everybody to be in the Champions League at this stage.

It's time for them to win it. We've been the measuring stick because we're the last consensus national champions here. It's time.

Phil Garner

They deserved to be called world champions this year.

They are three very important competitions. I am trying to take each one at a time. My priority is to win the Champions League which is the top club football competition, something that any player wants to win,

The Tournament of Champions in New York is where I won my first tournament. It is where I wanted to retire.

Mark Lawrenson

They're in pole position, i.e. in 3rd position, for the Champions League.

Jay Wright

They're playing like champions and we're out here cruising. I thought we started the second half relaxed.

I hope it will be like a European game. It will be better for us. We have a clearer idea in the Champions League and maybe we will have more confidence.

Sue Bird

I haven't thought about last year at all. We've had to play as the defending champions all year and I don't think any team is going to be looking at us thinking that.

Fred Funk

I really feel like I can help the Champions Tour. But at the same time, I'm competitive out here. It's kind of hard to say, okay, that's over and let's go to a new chapter. But I'm not sure. I'm going to have to re-evaluate.

Paolo Maldini

In the Champions League you must try and clinch a place in the next round as early as possible.

Tony Dungy

I guess that's good in a lot of ways. But the defending champions are always the team to beat. And that's who everybody is focused on.

Steven Gerrard

I fully intended to sign a new contract after the Champions League final, but the events of the last five or six weeks have changed all that.

Frank Lampard

Hopefully, we will win tonight and so reach the Champions League final. If that happens and I have the foot done straight afterwards, that would rule me out of the England tour,