Quotes About Competition

In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best team, all the competitor nations know that they need to train their athletes for many years, starting as early as the first moments a child can recognize a soccer ball. No shortcuts. No late starts.

As a rugby player, you strive to be an All Black, win a World Cup, and win a Super Rugby title.

I've got to do everything extra to put myself in the best shape to get in the World Cup squad.

On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.

Messi deserves to win this World Cup for all he has done for football.

Winning the World Cup is definitely the highlight of my career. I thought the gold medal at the Olympics would peak it, but winning the World Cup, the reception... it's what we all dreamed of when we were little.

There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup.

If you qualify for a World Cup and expect to get an easy group, you are in the wrong sport. It doesn't work like that.

I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.

I am Brazilian, and that is not going to change, but I want to win the World Cup with Spain.

Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.

I have always loved the big stage and would often tell my friends while growing up that I'd want to help India win the World Cup one day.

This is something I've dreamed of for a long, long time - to play in a World Cup.

The World Cup focus is football. Team U.S.A. is more than football.

This is the whole reason you play: to win your country a World Cup!

The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms a global pluralism - it is as much a festival of cultural multiplicity as it is a competition featuring some of the best athletes in the world.

Any game in the World Cup is a tough game. The atmosphere brings a lot out of both teams.

Playing at the World Cup stage excites me.

If you can't play under pressure, you shouldn't be at a World Cup.

The reason why the entire world sits up and watches World Cup football is the intensity of involvement with which people are playing a game: just kicking a ball around, but with such skill and involvement that it is like the last thing they are going to do in their life.

Every player wants to win the World Cup - every country wants to win the World Cup - so anything less than that is not really a bonus. Of course you can take positives out of everything, but you won't be entirely happy if you don't win it.

You can't predict anything in football, particularly in the World Cup.

In the World Cup, you have to respect every team.

It's my biggest dream as a soccer player: I always wanted to play in the World Cup.