Top 534 World Cup Quotes

These youngsters are gaining experience and making use of the opportunities. At some point, it will help me be relieved of responsibility because World Cup is such a high pressure tournament.

After the World Cup, it was so intense, and a lot of pressure was put on me – unfairly, I thought, at times – and it is always a worry, but you get older, you get a better support team, and I haven’t hidden the fact about my past, and I never will because I’m not ashamed of it.

A World Cup without Argentina and without Messi would be a catastrophe.

In the 1999 World Cup, I remember Nayan Mongia’s brilliant catch to dismiss Azhar Mahmood off Anil Kumble. It was the catch of the World Cup.

In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best team, all the competitor nations know that they need to train their athletes for many years, starting as early as the first moments a child can recognize a soccer ball. No shortcuts. No late starts.

The World Cup has special games, and losing them hurts more than the other ones.

World Cup selection will be a dream come true. I want to win matches for India and be more consistent and finish more games for the country.

The first time I watched a World Cup game was in 2002. That was the first time Senegal had ever qualified for the World Cup, and it was great moment that I will never forget in my life. I was ten years old at the time, and that experience of watching my country in a World Cup is what inspired me to become a footballer.

Most of my best games were when I felt crap – I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 – but there’s a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.

Going to the World Cup and being in the national team would be the ultimate.

In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.

My family have always been supportive of my career, whether it’s the highs of the World Cup or when I was just starting out.

Many substitutes have won the Euros, World Cup or Champions League without contributing anything.

When I was a player, and since then, we have never been so snobbish as to go into a tournament saying, ‘We will win this World Cup.’ We aren’t like that.

Of course I would have liked to have played at the World Cup, but I achieved so much in my career as a footballer that I can’t have any complaints.

I had a lot of pressure in my career: when you play at World Cup or Champions League final, there is pressure on your shoulders.

If you can beat New Zealand, then you’re probably going to win the World Cup.

It should be the pinnacle of any players’ career to get to a World Cup Finals with their country.

Whatever opportunities I got after the Under-19 World Cup, I tried to make most of it and do my best for the team.

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

It’s still my ambition to be at the top level and be playing for England – especially, like, a competition like the World Cup.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

I became an India player in January 2009 and was therefore paid Rs 40 lakhs. However, in my contract, my category continued as a 2008 World Cup Under-19 player and my contract continued at Rs 20 lakh.

I’ve never met anybody who says they don’t like the World Cup. If you’re a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

It is a great opportunity and a great challenge to be a part of Indian team for the World Cup.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn’t bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

I want to win the Euros. And the World Cup and the Champions League.

To participate in a World Cup is a great honour and achievement. I’ve played in three World Cups. The whole world watches you during a World Cup and expects you to play innings to win games for your country.

I have the belief that all the qualified teams can create surprises at the World Cup and not just the traditional top favourites.

Well, we’ve made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA ’94, and obviously since ’98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.

In a World Cup every single game is important; you are not allowed to make mistakes, not allowed to fail. If you want to win, you have to be there every game.

It’s special when you win the World Cup, the league, everything.

A World Cup in Brazil has to be a career highlight for any player. Everyone wants to be there.

People make up their mind on whether you’re a good player over seven games at a World Cup. You’re great if you score goals and bad if you don’t. I will always believe in myself, and those who doubt me will always continue to do so.

It might sound very cocky or naive of me, or self-centered, but I want to win a World Cup for my country.

Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, ‘Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.’

I still remember my quote from the 2007 World Cup, when I said scoring two threes was as good as hitting a six. That was me trying to justify what you couldn’t. To me, and this was before I became director of cricket, we just couldn’t do that again.

I think South Africa has shown it can host such a big event as the World Cup, so why not hold the Olympics at some point in Africa? Maybe not just in one country but in a host of countries.

We knew that if we had to win the World Cup, the defensive side of the game had to be better, which means bowlers will have to bowl tight and we will have to field better.

It’s a bad feeling, losing a World Cup.

People ask me, ‘What were you thinking during that game-winning penalty kick in the 2011 World Cup?’ I was actually thinking absolutely nothing. I just walked up there and was so inspired by my teammates who rocked all their PKs; they just killed it. I figured I might as well do the same, or they might have my neck.

As a soccer player, that’s the greatest dream, to win a World Cup.

There have been times when I’ve reflected on my international career and just thought: ‘Well that was a massive waste of time.’ Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

We have qualified for the 2010 World Cup qualification final round with young players and we will be able to advance in the competitions with the same players.

I realized that at the World Cup – which incidentally was my first ever World Cup – the media would be commenting not only on our game, but also on our different styles. That’s why I decided to seek professional help to put my looks together.

One lives every World Cup differently, mostly because one’s age changes.

My decision was to go abroad, especially after winning the World Cup, and to go to Madrid was perfect. I was 100 per cent convinced of it.

I think everyone around the world knows the tools are there in England’s armoury to do well in a World Cup. The challenge is to go out there and prove it.

For me, the 1982 Brazil squad was the best, although we could not win the World Cup.

I’ll obviously never get to play in the World Cup, but I get to experience it because of Lauren.

I wanted to finish at the top of the game and on my own terms. I thought it was the perfect time at the World Cup and to go out at Chelsea. Chelsea and England were immense in how they have supported me in that transition.

People think that the Club World Cup is an easy competition, but it’s not.

Like many of us in the England squad, I wasn’t even born when the men’s team played Cameroon in the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup, so I couldn’t tell you much about that game.

Winning the World Cup is what we have to do with Brazil. Every day that is what is in my head.

I experienced great sadness with our elimination from the 1990 World Cup, with many penalties. I still have that feeling of injustice in me.

World Cup is the most important title I have won. There is no doubt about that.

I’m very happy to play at the World Cup, and that is a message to all footballers and others around the world, that you should believe in your dreams and fight to make them come true.

Winning the World Cup was just the most emotional experience.

My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.

The World Cup is like the Overlook Hotel: the identities of individual meat puppets might change, but the structure continues endlessly.

I haven’t seen many pretty games in a World Cup.

When I joined Sale I thought that if I did well there I would have a chance of making the World Cup squad. What I did not expect was how quickly I got back into the frame.

At this level, if you are aiming for the World Cup, because the tournament is so long there will be points where the team may lose a couple of games.

When I watched the World Cup, I had the feeling that I wanted to be there.