Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Quotes

To not play in the Champions League is a disappointment, something negative.

My worst moment in football was losing that Champions League final to Barca in Rome.

I played a lot of games for Villa, and one of my regrets is not winning a trophy there - that still hurts, and that's why the big games are important.

Zero-zero is a big score.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

When I was very young, coming into the Sunderland side, if we got beaten, I'd be very down. I'd go home, and it would drag on for days, I'd be thinking about the game. I was from Sunderland, felt things like a fan, and got really down.

I felt bad for Newcastle when they lost their 2005 FA Cup semi-final to Manchester United. They had loaned me out to Celtic, but I still had a lot of affection for them.

I was thinking of winning the Scudetto in Rome. I did not succeed, but I grew as a goalkeeper.

Winning the Europa League with Atletico Madrid and then reaching a semi-final of the World Cup is great.

Obviously I want to be a starter and to win things with Real Madrid.

When my father played in the local team, I always used to go with him to watch him. He played as a striker. He was very good; he used to score a lot of goals. Once, he scored seven goals in one game.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There's five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Look, in my life, I played one World Cup: the greatest thing. I used to wait in anticipation for the squad announcement. I didn't go to Argentina 78 having played throughout qualification. Now, that hurt.

There are sometimes easier games and others harder, but the Champions League always requires enormous concentration.

You only appreciate what it feels like to win the Champions League after you've seen it snatched away from you.

It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

A keeper can almost never catch my shots.

Missing the chance to go to the 2007 World Cup was the biggest disappointment of my career.

I was a fan of Henk Groot, former striker of Ajax, who scored many goals with his head. I thought, 'I can do that also,' but I couldn't.

I'm very pleased to play for Manchester United. I want to hep the team get into the Champions League.

I have the dream of playing at a World Cup and winning a Champions League.

Nobody likes to lose a Champions League semi-final.

I tried to do everything on the pitch to play at the World Cup. It wasn't enough.