World Cup Quotes

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.

The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here.

I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

The World Cup gave me a lot of confidence - just to know that I can play at the highest level and not only complete but play well.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.

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.

Nothing is more important to England's arrangements for the World Cup than the state of David Beckham's foot.

We're going to do it. We're going to get to the World Cup.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

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.

I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey... no I mean Tunisia.

I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.

Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.

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.

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

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

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

We shall wonder if one day our game is played on another planet? Why not? Then we will have not only a World Cup we will have inter-planetary competitions.

One thing is for sure, a World Cup without me is nothing to watch so it is not worthwhile to wait for the World Cup.

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

We wanted to give back to the fans what they've given us, and that is unbelievable support thoughout the World Cup

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far.

I have reasons to believe that I could win the World Cup, but I take it one race at a time.

I love football, but I'm sick of the World Cup. I don't even care about England.

Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy.

Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life. ... I couldn't control my tears of joy.

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

They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).

Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.

Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.

My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.

I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

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

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

[Wayne Rooney] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it hasn't happened for him at the World Cup for one reason or another.

I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.