Quotes About Victory

Every player dreams of winning the World Cup, and there are very few who are fortunate enough to actually do it.

Every player's dream is to play Champions League and the World Cup.

You can play basketball and have a magic night and score 40 points with your team-mates and win the game. There are favourites for the World Cup, but you can't guarantee Germany, Spain, or Brazil will win, but here, everyone can guarantee that Mercedes or Ferrari will win the race, and this is very sad for the sport.

To go to a World Cup is a dream come true, and I can claim to have experienced that four times.

The World Cup is a tough tournament.

I've always said the World Cup is a dream for any player.

I would change all my individual trophies for that trophy of World Cup champion.

The best thing to do is to find the type of play to make Italy win the World Cup, and maybe Baggio be the best player.

To win the World Cup in our colours was beyond my dreams and something I will never, ever forget.

When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each game in that run - the astonishing victory against Portugal, the resilient win over Mexico, even the gutsy but unlucky effort against the Germans - propelled me to push my other athletic interests aside and focus only on soccer.

I spent the afternoon of Sunday 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.

I was over the moon after bowling Chris Lewis and I was a little nervous about the hat-trick. You know it is a dream come true for any player to perform in the finals of a world cup.

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

When you win the World Cup, you start to become a legend - for the people around the world, you are different.

The dream of every footballer and why we train and work is to reach the top, and a World Cup is the top.

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.

It's the best thing that can happen to a player. Being able to play at the World Cup is already the best, but then to raise the trophy to the sky is a dream.

The World Cup is a very big event. Every player dreams of playing in one, and it was my dream, too.

You know, when you are the Italian national team, all the time you need to win because for our history, it is important for us to try to win the World Cup.

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.

You think about past World Cups - in 2006, it was a fantastic Brazil team, but we did not do so well that year. In 2010, the same: it did not go far, either - only the quarter-finals. But in '94 and 2002, Brazil did not play the best football but won the World Cup; they found a way to win.

Going to the World Cup would mean a lot to me.

My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.

The first World Cup I followed was Sweden 1958. I watched the games on TV. Brazil won that World Cup by defeating Sweden 5-2 in the Final and Pele scored twice.