Quotes About Competition

We have to be playing near-perfect football to go and win a World Cup.

Since the World Cup in 2015, we've all experienced an increase in the interest in women's football, which has led to more and more fans supporting the team.

I am not thinking about World Cup and all those things. You can't play freely if you start thinking like that.

World Cup is very special because it happens once in four years, so for every individual, it's very special.

It's a goal to get myself in the squad for the World Cup.

I've never been a massive advocate of international Twenty20 cricket except a World Cup every two or three years, because that gets the best players together.

I still remember my quote from the 2007 World Cup, when I said scoring two threes was as good as hitting a six. That was me trying to justify what you couldn't. To me, and this was before I became director of cricket, we just couldn't do that again.

If you've got an opportunity to improve your squad before a World Cup you must take it.

For every player it's nice to go to the World Cup and it's very important to do that in your career.

In the 2015 World Cup, there was a drastic change in the move towards higher scores. Scores moved from 300 to 330 on average and that meant you had to change everyone's default mode.

Something you look at when you go into a World Cup is your depth and your players that change the game.

I think every time I'm with the team, even in a World Cup, as a coach, you're constantly evaluating.

I haven't seen many pretty games in a World Cup.

It's going to be a massive honour to represent your country, if selected, for the World Cup.

The competition for World Cup places is massive, and you can't just rest on what you've done in the past or anything like that.

Being part of the World Cup team is definitely very special for any cricketer.

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.

It happens so quick. You lose a game; you lose another game; it's a World Cup; media scrutiny; public expectation, and then you almost go into sort of survival mode. We've all been there.

A World Cup in Brazil is the greatest event in which a footballer can play.

I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.

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.

It's very difficult to reach World Cup and Champions League finals and I want to experience those things again.

You can't win anything more special than a World Cup.

In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.