Quotes About Victory

After I made my comeback in 2002 and won the Jaws Tow-In World Cup, the eyes of the surfing world were on me in a way they'd never been before.

Everything I experienced in the national team was amazing. I was there for 14 years and won several titles: the Copa America, Confederations Cup and the World Cup.

This is something I've wanted to do my whole life, to play in a World Cup, to play in a World Cup final and win the World Cup.

It would be cool to win a World Cup, and I think it would be good for my career as well.

The World Cup is the biggest stage for football in general.

Two days before the World Cup, it's a good time to be back to your best.

Everybody wants to be in the World Cup.

I want to go to the World Cup with Italy, but I know the competition will be fierce.

Winning the World Cup was a dream of all Brazilians.

Growing up, playing in a World Cup, scoring in a World Cup, is what you dream about.

If we don't qualify, if we didn't win the Asian Cup, if we went into the last World Cup and you know, we got embarrassed in any way, I would be the man in front of that.

My national team experience was a hugely positive one. I had four years and we won the only trophy on offer and then we qualified for the World Cup, so I think I completed the mission.

At a World Cup it's hard to look much further than the traditional big-name teams: history backs that up.

It was my Dads dream for me to play for India. It was my dream to win a World Cup.

To have the experience of the World Cup would be unbelievable.

If anybody wants to beat me, let them run a world record.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.

I'd like to go out on top, preferably breaking a new world record on the Fourth of July.

The most important thing is winning, not breaking the world record.

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.