Top Team, Top Teams Quotes

In the Bundesliga, you have Bayern Munich, and they win it every year. Or Dortmund.

When I first heard Madrid were interested, nothing else mattered. I just wanted to come here. This is the best club in the world, with the best coach and great players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Xabi Alonso, Gonzalo Higuain, Angel Di Maria... so many great players.

It is really nice to play in the Champions League, because we play against the best teams and the best competition in Europe.

I just want to win as a team, take road games, play some of the top teams and beat them to make the playoffs.

To win the Premier League proves you are a top team.

In Europe, I always say that Barcelona and Real Madrid are the ones to look out for.

Chelsea are one of the great teams in Europe and Mourinho is one of the best coaches in the world.

Bayern Munich are a team that absolutely have to play in the Champions League.

Normally the teams that are in the NFC and AFC championship games are the teams that are going to be right there in the forefront as the season begins.

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.

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.

In Germany there are only two dominating teams, Bayern and Dortmund. In England the top group is broader.

The West is tough. Great teams. Great records, top to bottom.

I believe the Champions League has all that magic because it gathers all the best European teams, and that gives you the feeling of trying to be the best. That's why the Champions League has this special kind of emotion.

Of course you have Messi and Ronaldo. And then you've got a lot of players who are very close to each other and I think Gareth Bale is one of them, like at the level of the best teams in the world. He could play for every team in the world. For me he's a world class player.

In a top team, you always have very big competition between players, and for me, that's not a problem at all.

Everyone is going to be talking about Chelsea and Liverpool but the others are very tough teams.

Madrid excites me. They are one of the best teams in the world.

It is important to keep Manchester United on top of the world.

Ultimately, we've got to make sure our players understand that the margin for error is very small against these top teams in the world, and we've been punished several times for that.

Chelsea is one of the biggest football clubs in the world.

Having coached Ajax, Barcelona, the Netherlands, FC Bayern, and Manchester United like I did, it is difficult for any offer to be interesting.

It's difficult to understand someone leaving Barca, with the best players in the world.

If we want to be a top team, we can't get to 3-0 and suddenly decide not to play without the ball. We have to play with intelligence right through the game.

But to be fair, Arsenal are a quality side. They're not where they are by chance - they are not top of the league and unbeaten because they are a bad team.