Samir Nasri Quotes

To put your team in the top level of the Champions League is special.

You have to focus more in Serie A, because in the Champions League, focusing happens automatically, as there are not as many matches, and they are all tough.

I need to be playing in the Champions League.

Bayern have always been quite successful in European competition, but the competition is not a wish concert: you always have to be fit.

If you reach the Champions League semifinals three times in a row that speaks for itself. To win this competition isn't easy.

If you win games you will have good possibilities to maybe play in Europe, you never know.

The Champions League is a very special one, as everyone switches one gear up.

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

With Chelsea, the job was this: move up to the top, get into Europe. And I did that - fourth place in the Premier League and then into the Champions League, the season before Abramovich and all the money arrived.

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.

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.

It seems to be a big thing to people that a Scottish player is going to play in the Champions League final, but hopefully that will become a more regular thing.

French football must go as far as possible in the Champions League.

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.

We need more of our players to follow the trend and move to Europe, which is the biggest stage in world football, but we're not doing that, and that makes it difficult for us to compete with other countries.

Bayern had no international success in the years before I joined, and my goal was actually to play at the best possible level, which would have meant winning the Champions League.

Historically, Barcelona win La Liga when they win the Champions League.

The Champions League is one trophy that I need to win.

It's always a good time to play against a team when they come back from Europe, whether it's the Europa League or Champions League.

I am a huge fan of the Premier League, but do you think it will maintain its attractiveness if the Champions League is only an affair between English clubs and one or two others?

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.

I think I feel good as a South African player that people say that we always get into semifinal and lose... this is one of the biggest achievements to get into semifinal. Not many teams do that. For me, it's a real achievement.

I'm excited to contribute towards U.S.A. Basketball's winning legacy and continuing its tremendous reputation around the world.

I want to win the Premier League and the Champions League.

Coming to Europe and winning the Champions League with a great club like Bayern is everything I can ask for.