The World Cup is a really long tournament, so you have to prepare for whatever.
There is not a day I wake up and do not think of the World Cup.
The World Cup has its own space that needs to be respected.
I have not compromised in the last seven years on my preparations, be it a small series or a World Cup. I know that there is a World Cup, but I want to go out and play my game.
To play a World Cup for your country is everything you dream of.
I want to go to the World Cup with Italy, but I know the competition will be fierce.
When I was younger Canada took me in. Being able to represent my country in a World Cup would be an amazing experience.
Nobody criticised me when we qualified for the World Cup when I decided that the best shape for us going forward was three men at the back and stretching the pitch width-wise, which gives you options.
My No. 1 goal, and what I’ve spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don’t, then I’ll retire knowing that I’ve done everything I could to get it.
I was hoping for a little more faith in me following my performances after the 2010 World Cup.
If you want to win the World Cup, you need to play against the best national teams in the world.
England is a team that is used to playing in World Cup finals.
I remember, the 1998 World Cup when we were Yugoslavia, I had the sticker albums of all the players, and I still remember that squad and who was playing.
It’s a gift to be offered the opportunity to play the World Cup.
Scoring a goal for England is special. Scoring in a World Cup is even more special.
Sometimes you decide games, but you can’t decide a competition. So, Messi’s merit is not undone because he hasn’t won a World Cup.
I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup.
Yes, I’m having World Cup withdrawals; but no, this is sneaky of me to say, but I actually care about Tottenham more than I care about the England team.
I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.
One-day cricket is about the World Cup and Test cricket is about the Ashes.
I’ve scored many goals that I’ve liked, but I think the best memory I have is the one against Korea in the 2010 World Cup.
To score a goal in front of my family and so many U.S. fans in the World Cup was just absolutely incredible.
I put everything in the hands of God. He takes care of us and helps us. If he wants me to play in the World Cup, he’ll protect me.
It would be a dream to play in the World Cup.
Winning the Absa Cape Epic already was a wonderful surprise. The World Cup was, for sure, my main goal, but winning all of them was nothing I had planned on.
At the World Cup, I carried my mum’s Caribbean sauce around with me. She makes her own, and I brought it to Brazil – I needed to have it there. We’re very down-to-earth; it’s the nature of my family. We came from nothing.
I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.
I’ve been playing 90 minutes in MLS games. But when you’re playing internationally in World Cup qualifiers, there’s a little bit extra incentive there. It’s win or go home.
I think my breakthrough was at the World Cup 1986.
If you’re not going to the World Cup expecting to win, then you probably shouldn’t go.
There is always pressure in all matches in the World Cup. This is when you must go beyond your capacity as a competitor.
The title I most want is the 2014 World Cup.
Every player’s dream is to play Champions League and the World Cup.
Every day growing up, I had this dream about the World Cup: I score the winning goal. In the final minute. With my butt!
Even if you’ve been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
I’d love to see a global competition other than the World Cup.
We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation.
I played in the 2015 World Cup. I scored in two games; we got to the semi-finals and eventually ended up getting the bronze medal. That was a big turning point in my career, personally, and for English women’s football, too.
In the 2015 World Cup, there was a drastic change in the move towards higher scores. Scores moved from 300 to 330 on average and that meant you had to change everyone’s default mode.
I will not summon any new player for the Saudi Arabia match in the 2010 World Cup qualification.
The World Cup is every footballer’s dream.
I want to win games, want to win championships. I want to go to the World Cup. I want to win a World Cup. I want to play in Champions League. I want to have fun throughout all of that, and I want my family to be a part of that through the entire path.
I’m a forward, and I dream of a goal in the World Cup, pushing it, kicking it from outside the box, wherever. I dream of scoring at a World Cup.
To win the World Cup in our colours was beyond my dreams and something I will never, ever forget.
In a World Cup, the girls at Lyon are probably the ones that are going to change the games, and I know them inside out.
Buffon is fearless and has no obvious weaknesses. He has been outstanding for Juventus and was one of Italy’s most important players at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, where they were victorious, but what is amazing is that he has been playing like that for years. He never seems to make a mistake.
I want to go to the World Cup and enjoy it.
Obviously, the World Cup is nice and the Euros is really nice as well, but I have always dreamed of the Champions League.
Teams in the past have been slow starters yet gone on to win the World Cup.
When you go to a World Cup, you must be ready to play at any time.
Everybody had heard the rumours that Real wanted to sign James Rodriguez after the World Cup, and I knew that they were going to sell me to make room for him.
Whatever he has achieved in football, Phil Neville has always bounced back from adversity – from giving away a crucial penalty at Euro 2000 to being thrown in the deep end as a pundit at the World Cup in Brazil.
It’s true that if it’s always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you’re a success, and if you don’t, you’re a failure, then you’re bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren’t many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven’t.
In a World Cup final the adrenalin is going. Emotion sometimes get the better of me but that is adrenalin and wanting us to do well.
Germans have a rich history of playing well in the World Cup.
It’s every cricketer’s dream to play in the World Cup.
My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.
I hope I’m one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at this level. There are a lot of great female jockeys.
I think it’s pretty crazy when I walk down in the airport and a 12-year-old boy comes up to me and says, ‘Hey, I watched you at the World Cup. Great game! Great job!’ I love that.
I hope that my first appearance at a World Cup will be marked with a positive outcome.
Sometimes I forget, then suddenly I find myself thinking, ‘God – I won the World Cup, didn’t I?’
The thing about Champions League football is it can turn on an instant. You can have a very good, solid team over the course of the season, but the Champions League is more like the World Cup, where your fate can be decided in a second and you need a bit of luck too.
To be captain and win a lot at Juventus, to play for 20 years, to play in the World Cup, European Cup, I think I had a good career, no?
My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.
In the World Cup, you have to respect every team.
The pressures of playing in the World Cup are different, but it was because we coped with them in 1992 under Imran Khan’s guidance and influence that we won the Cup.
It’s the only sport that’s played in every country in the world. It’s played and watched all over the world, it’s the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.
Getting to the World Cup is a big dream for me.
It’s always something that’s played on my mind, being an Olympian, so hopefully we get there and do the job at the World Cup.
Every player would love to play a tournament like the World Cup at home.
It is really a great feeling to win a World Cup on your birthday.
The World Cup is made up of human relationships, you have to feel how the dressing room is established, how the players interact, the responsibility, the joy, the pride, you try to balance things out. If you’re hyper, you try to slow it down; if you’re a bit low, you try to hype it up.
