Quotes About Call-up

I was a fan like everybody else, even before I got called up for Scotland.

Being called up to the national team isn't a competition of who's more patriotic.

When Hull came calling it was a great, great move for me and when I went there I managed to get some goals and assists and get a senior Wales call-up.

To be called up to England, to play at Old Trafford and then to come and play at the Bridge, there's so much experience I can take away.

I always knew to warrant a call-up for my country, it was important that I was doing my job, and that is scoring goals.

There's a lot of good midfielders all desperate to play for their country and all I can do when I get called up is prove that I deserve to be there.

Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

I was still with Sunderland at the time of my first cap in 2010, and I remember getting the text to let me know that I was going to be called up to the squad - it was a Friday night, and I was in a hotel in London because we were playing Chelsea the next day.

And at West Ham no one gives you a puzzled look if you get called up for your national team and players are never asked to play on injections.

I was called up by England twice. Once for World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Croatia and later for a friendly against Germany.

When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.

When I was playing for the reserves, if you got a call-up you got a straight £30. I'd never been paid for football!

I am really excited to be called into Canada Soccer's men's national team.

Part of that, Tailer knows, is because of the unit's experience. Even though reservists like him have left their civilian lives suddenly to put on their IDF (Israel Defense Forces) uniforms again after Emergency Call-Up Order 8, they are not new to Lebanon.

I am very happy to have been called up by the national team. It's indeed another achievement in my career and I've worked a lot and very hard for this moment.

It's always nice to get a call-up when in decent nick as you can have that confidence coming into the game. It's what county cricket should do.

When Nigeria actually gave me the call-up I thought 'oh, it's going to be a challenge, I don't go back there a lot, I don't really speak the language.' I wasn't speaking the language as fluently as I am now, so it was always going to be a challenge, but it was a challenge I decided to take and change nationalities.

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.