I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
When I am an old man, I will tell my grandchildren bedtime stories about when I won the Champions League, hopefully when I won the World Cup, but most of all, I will tell them that their grandfather used to play with Lionel Messi.
One meal option is a piece of poached chicken the size of your fist with a green salad sprinkled with lemon juice, carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, and celery. Another is a cup and a half of quinoa with minced veggies, all cooked at once so the quinoa absorbs the nutrients.
I don’t personally think of myself as an icon, but it’s definitely an incredible thing. Scoring 16 goals at the World Cup is something you only usually dream about.
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.
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.
I will openly admit that I’ve never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole – even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it can start your day, there is the warmth and the ritual, and you can share it; you make someone a cup of tea and you offer it to them.
Those who know me well know that the World Cup is my goal.
Of course Neymar is someone that is very important, not only for Brazilian football but for the world of football, and it will be amazing to see him playing in a World Cup and showing all of his skills.
I really like Braun Strowman. I would turn the volume down on him just a little bit. I think he is a little bit overly animated, and he doesn’t have to be. He is already a larger than life character when he wakes up and has a cup of coffee.
Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.
The main lesson I learned from 2015 is that a World Cup doesn’t define a player’s career.
In order to play at the World Cup, I know I have to do well with my club, Athletic.
Winning domestic tournaments like leagues, cups, and super cups adds to your standing in your country, but once you take a step forward in Europe and lift that European Cup, I think that prestige extends to the global stage.
It’s impossible to describe Messi. I like him so much, and I always say I feel so sad because he never won the World Cup with Argentina. It is an award he deserves because a world-class player like him must be a world champion.
What I like in L.A. is that it’s a lot more brutal. In England it’s, ‘Have a cup of tea, have a chat,’ and you still don’t get the part. In L.A. you go in, do your bit, and if they don’t like you, you’re straight out again. In a sense, that’s more honest.
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.
I have no nerves at all about singing or playing stuff… and if I can have a cup of tea nearby, then I’m very much at home.
The World Cup is every four years, so it’s going to be a perennial problem.
At Leeds I’ve tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.
I’m so proud to represent my country at a World Cup because lots of players don’t ever get that opportunity, including our manager, Phil Neville. He’s reminded us of all the hard work he put in to try and get there, only for him to never make it past the last hurdle.
I have the dream of playing at a World Cup and winning a Champions League.
Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win – so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can’t understand what the World Cup means to our country.
The Confed Cup is a chance for me to prove what I can do.
I live in New York full time. I can’t live in L.A., because I fear people think I’m a vagrant there. If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.
I wasn’t playing at Arsenal, and I was frustrated. I was doing everything I could do, looking after myself, scoring, and playing in the Europa League then when the cup came, but it wasn’t enough for me, and I wanted more.
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.
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
The first introduction I had with English football was in the FA Cup in the early ’80s.
After the World Cup, I feel more mature, more confident.
Interestingly, one summer I was visiting my sister in U.S.A., and I learned how to play the rhythm of ‘The Cup’ song, which is from the movie ‘Pitch Perfect’ where Anna Kendrick plays this song.
I’m the best goal-scorer in the history of the African Cup.
I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving.
There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup.
I can’t live without my cup of tea. When I was a judge on ‘America’s Next Top Model,’ they had to put me in a hotel where I had my own kitchen, because they can’t make tea in America. I was happy then because I could make my own.
I’ve got a massive opportunity here with a great bunch of players to represent England at a World Cup; that’s my biggest focus now.
I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn’t realize that if he wasn’t your cup of tea, you got to leave.
I won the title three times with Ajax; I played in the Champions League final and won the league title with Atletico. I have also played in the World Cup.
The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
Whatever opportunities I got after the Under-19 World Cup, I tried to make most of it and do my best for the team.
I realize that I’m not going to be everybody’s cup of tea, and that’s okay. I think that’s the point of music.
The FA Cup is important to everyone at the club. We have a great record in it and we want to win a trophy.
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.
If you win the Carling Cup, it can give you confidence, and sometimes, when you haven’t won a trophy, you become scared of winning.
Some people with autism who don’t talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said ‘cup,’ they might just hear ‘uh.’
If I don’t work very often, it’s because what I read is written for formidable actresses, but actresses who make a habit of playing with their cup half full.
I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.
Canadian writers don’t live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup.
Stanley Cup hockey comes around every year, when games start to count in multiples of best-of-seven series, and the players seem to put more attention into every pass, every check, every annoying little trick.
I’ll give you my routine, my morning ritual: I get up, I do a bit of stretching, and then after showering and everything, I have a half cup of warm lemon water. I’ve been doing that forever. I love it. It just brightens everything for me.
‘Whatever it takes’ is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it’s not my cup of tea.
My biggest ritual is writing at home more than on the road. I do very little writing on the road. Actually, it’s funny to bring this into it, but one thing I always do is have a cup of coffee. I drink the most coffee when I’m writing songs.
I love home, any home really – my mum’s, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea.
A good cup of Earl Grey tea – you can’t beat it.
I rap on ‘Front Porch Junkies’ and ‘Whatcha Got in that Cup.’ I try to channel my inner Lil Wayne and Drake. It’s fun to be able to freestyle over a country melody and say country words over a rap song.
I’ve always been clear – I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It’s a big team but an inferior league. I don’t want to return to France, because I’ve won everything over there – the league title, cup, best player, best young player.
