Quotes About Legacy

To be the first player in the world to take part in three successive World Cup finals is very important.

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.

Of all the players at the World Cup I don't think it is too much to compare Ronaldinho with the great Pele.

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.

There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

The shot of Kapil Dev kissing the World Cup and hordes of Indian fans all over at Lord's is etched in my memory. Every Indian is proud of that victory, and every Indian player who has played the World Cup after that '83 win wants to bring the Cup home.

If I can push myself up to the 2018 World Cup, then I'll go on. After that, I'll close the door and stop playing football.

Dennis Bergkamp is, in my eyes, still 'The Master'. The fact that he never won the Champions League, the European Championship, or the World Cup does not take anything away from his greatness as a player.

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?

On a personal note, reaching the World Cup would be something that no one could ever take away from me.

Messi is always compared to Maradona, but he needs to win the World Cup because if you don't win the World Cup, you can't be up there with the very best.

Like many of us in the England squad, I wasn't even born when the men's team played Cameroon in the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup, so I couldn't tell you much about that game.

The common vision is winning - and winning a World Cup. We have a three-year plan - win the World Cup, win the Olympics, win the Euros - and the common agreement is you want to create a legacy and win the World Cup; then, everything else falls into place.

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.

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.

For a player or coach, there is nothing better than the World Cup.

I loved every minute of my 17-year career, all the Test matches, the ODIs and the World Cups. The only disappointment, if you ask me, was I never won a World Cup for West Indies.

We have big goals at Bayern and always want to go as far as possible in each competition and win silverware. But it is great to have won the World Cup. You are a world champion for your entire life. A lof of people talk about it and it remains very special. But it's not like I think about the World Cup each morning I wake up.

Germans have a rich history of playing well in the World Cup.

I'm a fan of how Zinedine Zidane ended his career, right after a World Cup.

Every footballer wants to take part in a World Cup with his country.

It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup Finals with their country.

For me, ever since the South Africa World Cup, the French team is part of the past.