Top 585 Cup Quotes

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

I loved getting messages from people saying they were watching during the World Cup with their son or daughter, and they could see they could be involved, too. That was so powerful.

My dad got sent off for punching Roberto Mancini in the face. It was in the European Cup-Winners’ Cup quarter-final in 1991, and if you look on YouTube, you will have confirmation. It’s a very clear punch. He just went straight through him. I can’t wait to play against Mancini now. Maybe he will remember.

You won’t be exiled to permanent unemployment just because there’s a picture somewhere of you holding a red Solo cup and looking underage. But, your Google results tell a story: Have you been in the news? Authored articles or blog posts? What types of topics do you frequently tweet about?

It would be spectacular if I could be the top scorer and win the World Cup with Argentina.

The most important thing is qualifying for the World Cup.

They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy.

We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren’t enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.

It’s an honor, it’s a privilege to be able to be one of the guys leading your country out, especially in a World Cup. It’s something that you’ll be able to tell your grandkids about.

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.

I see football as a bit like a stairway, and you have to climb it bit by bit. First, you have to play good football so that you get to play for a good team. Then, hopefully you achieve such a level that you are invited to play for your national side, in time for a World Cup, if possible.

Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky – this is happiness. Truly happiness.

My first goal is the World Cup, and then my second goal is to win the Asian Cup.

Scoring a goal in a World Cup was my dream as a little girl. I didn’t really dream of being in ‘Maxim’ when I was 5.

Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I’ll never forget.

I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

I’ve always wanted to play Davis Cup. I love Davis Cup.

Messi is a god, as a person and even more as a player. I hope that he wins the World Cup with Argentina.

I always say I’ll rest when I die – that’s my motto. I just hope I don’t die before the World Cup!

There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they’re getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East.

Maybe apart from the World Cup, the Champions League is one of the most important trophies in the world of football.

When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.

Every player wants to win the World Cup – every country wants to win the World Cup – so anything less than that is not really a bonus. Of course you can take positives out of everything, but you won’t be entirely happy if you don’t win it.

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

I still can’t believe I’m going to a World Cup.

I have dreamed of Brazil all my life. As a child, I had videos of Brazil, of their World Cup wins, of Pele, and of all the big players.

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children’s faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

I stay away from desserts, but every now and then, I have a sticky toffee pudding or a cup of tea with some biscuits.

I think the World Cup is going to be bigger than what a lot of people are anticipating. At this stage in my career, when there is an opportunity, albeit a small one, of being on the team, what a great way to possibly end my career.

The Olympics will be great for the growth of golf on a global scale, but my focus right now is on being the best player I can be, trying to win Major Championships and contributing to what will hopefully be a victorious European side at the forthcoming Ryder Cup Matches against the USA.

If you sit at your desk and reach and grab a cup of coffee, you don’t look directly at the cup, focus on it, and get your fingers lined up before grabbing the coffee. In real life, you reach for a cup that you see out of the corner of your eye, and when you feel it, you know you can grab it.

Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.

Clearly, those of us women who play football wish that there was more coverage. But it’s one of those things that happens. Every year the level is getting higher, and I think we surprise a lot of people when the world focuses its attention on the World Cup or the Olympics final.

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 prefer if friends come over to my office and we talk our heart out over a cup of coffee. I feel that no one talks freely at industry bashes. Everyone has to behave in a certain way, and I think no one is real there. We can’t have heart-to-heart conversations, and I start feeling uncomfortable at such dos.

On Saturday, I don’t want to be woken up until at least nine: I like a bit of a lie-in, a cup of tea, toast and marmalade, and the newspaper.

I wish I could play the World Cup; that’s one of my dreams.

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

In 1600, when Shakespeare’s audience at the Globe heard ‘Hamlet’ for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink.

I think there’s as much violence, in a way, as a scene with two women having a cup of coffee in a Ruth Rendell novel – in terms of emotional violence and the violence you can inflict with language – as there is in the most graphic kind of serial killer/slasher novel you can think of.

I don’t really know if I’m writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on ‘American Horror Story’ is a little bit more my cup of tea.

For me, winning isn’t just about lifting the cup, the trophy – it’s about giving your maximum, on and off the pitch.

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.

I remember my grandmother drying wild coffee berries in the sun, then hulling and roasting them for her own cup of coffee each morning.

Every time you win a cup, it’s special, but it’s a dream come true when it happens at a club where you started in the youth set-up, surrounded by friends who formed an incredible generation of players.

Sometimes when you have difficulties qualifying, you can still go and play a good World Cup.

After all these years, I’m finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group – they’re all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

The ’54 World Cup was the first time the people got the recognition back after the second World War and felt like they are proud of something you know it brought people back together and you know now we can keep our heads up again.

At the World Cup, it’s the very top level. It’s going to be tougher.

Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn’t exactly sure what a Knick was.

Every World Cup I want to try and win, and my 30th World Cup win was a big goal. And it’s a good feeling to go into the world championships with a good result.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

Starting in a World Cup is always complicated, hard, and important. When you start well… The rest of the competitors are watching. I think it’s the most important match in a World Cup, along with the final.

It’s obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.

In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea.