European Championship Quotes

To be picked for your country at any stage is a massive honour, and to be at a huge tournament likes the Euros is such a bonus.

I won Formula Four. I went to New Zealand and won the Toyota Racing Series. I won the F3 European championship in 2016.

When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.

It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.

I'm a fan of judo, so I always try to watch competitions like the European championship.

At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

It's only normal, I am a player, who doesn't want to play in a European Championship quarter-final?

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.

Winning the European Championship was a great thing for me, and I understood what it was to win a major trophy and what I had been missing.

At Euro 2004 - my first as a player - Greece won the title. A team nobody thought could win it.

The 2017 European Championship was my first major tournament for England, but everyone tells me the World Cup is a different level.

Who am I, of course, to judge them, but the Premier League must urgently think about a rest period in a European Championship or World Cup year.

When you end the European Championship the best goal-scorer in your own country, you show the world that you have the shoulders to handle the pressure.

I'm delighted when Scotland qualify either for the World Cup or the European Championship. I always take a vested interest in Scotland's result, and it creates the opportunity for a drink in our house when they do well.

He is someone I respect [Beckham] as a man and as a player. He is the captain of England and has been a European champion. I have never been critical of him and reports implying that are incorrect as I've never made comments about him

Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

The Under-21s was a good experience for me and one I will take into the Euros.

The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'

I've played at a European Championship; to represent your country at a World Cup is every boy's dream, and for me, it would definitely be a dream come true.

Do I want to be the best defender in Europe? Of course. Any defender will tell you that - who wouldn't want to be the best?

You can't get any better than winning in Europe.

My generation started in big tournaments. '88 Olympics, we got silver. '89 European Championship, we got gold. 1990 World Cup in Argentina, we got gold. '91 European Championship, we got gold, and then there was a civil war, and for three years, we didn't play.

When you make your final list for the World Cup or European Championship you don't take the 23 best players, that is for sure.

When I went to the 2007 Europeans with the Under-21s, we were based at Oosterbeek near Arnhem and I went out on my bike a few times. We went over the bridge. I went to some of the war cemeteries there: very, very moving.