Diego Costa Quotes

My managerial ambitions were the same as I had as a player: to become as good as possible and to join the big teams in the big leagues.

To arrive and try to fight for the Champions League, to try to fight to be the best in the world, you need time.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

My value can only go higher if I can perform well in the Champions League.

The titles are important forever; it doesn't matter when you win. They keep you motivated to win the Premier League and the Champions League.

I want to be great - in everything I do. As far as football, I always looked up to Kellen Moore of Boise State. I thought it was the coolest thing that he was the winningest QB of all time.

It's not about how many games we win with me as captain, it's about us being consistently getting better over a long period of time and looking to be that number one side in the world.

I'm looking forward to playing my part in keeping United at the top of the game.

To improve teams like Newcastle, if you do the right things, it is enough to be stronger and bigger and compete.

When you're in the semi-finals of the Champions League, you need to be really good and need a little bit of luck.

Competition in football means someone will improve.

Football is like a pyramid. It is easy to reach the top of the pyramid, but to stay there is the hardest part.

What motivates me is being the best quarterback in the world.

If you want to win games in this league, you have to be efficient.

The objective is to give high performances for Manchester City today, tomorrow, and in the future.

For me, it's all about winning. I want to be in a good system, a good team.

I want my performance to be at the highest level of anybody in the company. I want to make everybody step up to me.

I know what it takes to win, and I've helped lead teams to winning cultures.

Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need, to move line items around. Being a great manager means pushing to get those few extra inches every day. It's almost like a football game - the team that wins sometimes wins by just inches.

There's this myth that there's no loyalty in football. Well, there's tremendous loyalty and emotion and respect that go into the coaches and players you've gone into battle with. But as an owner, you have to make the decisions that are the right ones for the organization, that are the right ones that will help you win.

If you are at United, you need a manager with a winning mentality. We had that with Ferguson. Mourinho has it. He wants to win every game.

With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.

Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.

But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.