Quotes About Victory

To speak of Mexico '86, I can make it short and speak only of Maradona. I never saw a player who dominated a World Cup like he did in '86.

Every day growing up, I had this dream about the World Cup: I score the winning goal. In the final minute. With my butt!

Football is strange, especially after a World Cup.

The 2006 World Cup was the summer I came to United so the England thing was kind of ongoing. Getting to the World Cup was massive but it wasn't until I got to United that I had that feeling that winning was a possibility.

World Cup is a big platform.

It's every cricketer's dream to play in the World Cup.

The pressures of playing in the World Cup are different, but it was because we coped with them in 1992 under Imran Khan's guidance and influence that we won the Cup.

Nobody's going to give you the World Cup; nobody's going to give you an easy game - not Scotland, not Argentina, not Japan, and not whoever we get going forward.

Winning is the most important thing at a World Cup.

The best day of my career was probably winning the World Cup!

I wanted to score the winning goal in the 90th minute of the World Cup final.

Maybe apart from the World Cup, the Champions League is one of the most important trophies in the world of football.

I want to be the world's number one one-day player; I want to win a World Cup, win the championship with Lancashire - those are my motivations.

One of my dreams was to win the World Cup.

Throughout my career, we beat India in many matches, but for some reason, we never managed to get the better of them in World Cup matches, and it remains a disappointment for me.

Once you reach the knockout stage of a World Cup, the team that holds its nerves wins.

We were able to dominate the world in the '90s because the World Cup victory completely transformed us and changed our mindset.

Obviously, I want to do well in the Champions Trophy, which is like a mini World Cup with all top teams participating.

When we won the 2009 World Cup in Australia, we flew economy, shared hotel rooms and had a 10:45 P.M. curfew.

Being able to put the ball in the back of the net is so important at the highest level and could be the difference between reaching the semi-finals and actually winning the World Cup.

Back in 2005, we lost in the semi-final of the World Cup and that was a great learning curve for the team. It gave us a goal and even more of a hunger to win the World Cup, so we went away and set ourselves a long-term plan to do it.

I want to win games, want to win championships. I want to go to the World Cup. I want to win a World Cup. I want to play in Champions League. I want to have fun throughout all of that, and I want my family to be a part of that through the entire path.

I want to win all sorts of titles and then the World Cup with the Brazilian national team.

This is in the plan which I have for my career and my life, to one day win the Champions League and the World Cup.