It is really nice to play in the Champions League, because we play against the best teams and the best competition in Europe.
You have to give 100 percent in the Champions League, as you're up against the biggest teams.
Al Ain are among the absolute best in Asia. When explaining their place in football in this part of the world, they are compared with Barcelona or Real Madrid.
People think that the Club World Cup is an easy competition, but it's not.
I respect everybody who goes to Kentucky. You know that once you sign with Kentucky, the same thing with Duke. You know each and every night it's going to be a team's Super Bowl. You're going to get their best.
The margin for error in the Champions League is tiny.
At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.
The West is tough. Great teams. Great records, top to bottom.
Having coached Ajax, Barcelona, the Netherlands, FC Bayern, and Manchester United like I did, it is difficult for any offer to be interesting.
Making it to the Final Four, you feel like you're watched on campus. You're in the classroom, professors are talking about it.
The Champions League, for me especially, is the most beautiful competition.
Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.
It's harder when you're supposed to win. When you're talking about the best players and the best teams in the world, when you talk about the Heat, you can ask them - it's not easy.
You see the likes of the Barcelonas and Real Madrids, and you always want to play against them and, obviously, Bayern Munich too.
At Bayern you need other characteristics to assert yourself. Just being good is not enough there.
In football, the Champions league semi-final does not allow you to relax.
If you look around world, the great brands are Real Madrid, Manchester United. The Yankees, the Cowboys and the Lakers are there. We should aspire with the Maple Leafs to be there.
I always think when you're in the Champions League, as a player, as a fan now, you're in that to come up against the biggest teams and the biggest names - that's what you want.
You cannot underestimate any team that has qualified for a semi-final.
You don't make it to the Final Four two years in a row by mistake.
Ask any player: we all want to play in the best clubs and the best championships.
The Raptors have to aspire to be the Heat and the Lakers.
The Champions League is the biggest trophy. Everybody in the world wants to win it.
Matches don't come any bigger than FA Cup quarter-finals
Everyone in the Champions League has quality.
