Quotes About Competition

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.

I think every national team has the same possibilities to win the World Cup.

Brazil go 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. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup.

It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

The World Cup is every footballer's dream.

The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.

The World Cup has special games, and losing them hurts more than the other ones.

Getting to the World Cup is a big dream for me.

It's funny that as soon as I retired from international football, Italy won the World Cup.

Not many players played in a World Cup and Champions League final.

Missing the last European Championship in 2016 and the World Cup 2018 has created a gap. That's a shame.

The World Cup is a truly International event.

I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.

Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

When you make your final list for the World Cup or European Championship you don't take the 23 best players, that is for sure.

When you come to a World Cup with Germany you are expected to win it.

Sometimes when you have difficulties qualifying, you can still go and play a good World Cup.

There is nothing nicer than playing in a World Cup against France, England, or Spain. There is nothing nicer than instead of playing a friendly, you can play a game where, if you win, you can make history.

The first one is your first World Cup, so you go into it with a lot of pressure, trying to take it all in, but you are just so focused.

A World Cup in Brazil has to be a career highlight for any player. Everyone wants to be there.

We're trying to win a World Cup for our country, and I think everyone who supports football can get behind that.

It would be a dream to play in the World Cup.

It's true that if it's always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you're a success, and if you don't, you're a failure, then you're bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren't many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven't.

The beginning of the World Cup is always a bit tough.