Quotes from Essam El Hadary

When I'm sitting on the bench, I try to help the players who are out on the pitch.

I'm always focused on constantly developing.

Setting targets is very important in my life; I always have targets to fulfil.

I'm used to realising all my dreams and targets through my determination and ambition.

I appreciate Merriekh and their chairman Gamal El-Wali. I respect their supporters, players and technical staff.

I am a professional footballer and as long as I'm able to make a contribution, I'll be doing all I can to stay at the top.

The player who is almost at the same age as my daughter... I treat all my team-mates as brothers and I treat him just like a team-mate. I embrace them all and I am always around them giving advice because this is part of my job as a team captain and friend. I don't make them feel the gap in the age because I believe this should be normal.

I have dealt with three generations of players, each one of them was different.

By working hard, age is just a number.

My father who passed away told me that his dream is to watch me playing at a World Cup and I want to make my dad proud.

I'm proud of my long career but playing in the World Cup is something special for any player. There is no limit to my ambition and I have always been determined to achieve that objective.

Sometimes the media highlight a record for me that I did not know anything about but setting a record at a prestigious tournament like the World Cup makes me happy.

Beating a record for the oldest World Cup player means that it's an achievement for my country before it's an achievement for me.

God helped me crown my football career with a participation in the World Cup.

I work out in the morning before I join group training sessions with the team.

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.

This 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.

As the captain of the team, my job involves more than just playing. I have to talk to the players and motivate them.

We're all determined to do whatever it takes to honour the national team jersey.

It won't matter who starts and who plays, the most important thing is the Egyptian national team and we will do our best.

I did almost everything in my footballing career.

We all have a loyalty to our country, we want to serve our country. It's in our nature.