Quotes About Competition

I would never dream of telling them how to play but it would be amazing if England won the World Cup.

Playing in a World Cup or in a European Championships is like a dream come true.

Personal vanity has no place in a World Cup.

Germans have a rich history of playing well in the World Cup.

What better example than the World Cup is there of the fact that individual people are irrelevant while impersonal structures are invariant?

I never thought I'd rather watch England's cricketers batting for a draw than their footballers in the World Cup but it was a lot more exciting.

Everyone wants to play at a World Cup. It would have been my dream to go.

Every footballer wants to take part in a World Cup with his country.

A 3-0 win in the World Cup, it's never easy.

The World Cup has not been kind to us overall.

It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup Finals with their country.

The moment we won the World Cup is one I will never forget and would do anything just to experience again. It was the most euphoric sporting sensation you could possibly imagine.

Before normal games I was always relaxed. But at the World Cup for Italy my heartbeat was always going a lot quicker.

The World Cup is not a normal one-day series.

In a World Cup you always intend to compete with the best.

When I think back to the 2006 World Cup on home soil, we came close but nobody really expected us to get very far. We simply lost to a better team and Italy went on to win it.

While we play for the club we are focused on usual routine, but when we are with the national team and the new kit is unveiled we feel closer to the World Cup.

The World Cup is like the Overlook Hotel: the identities of individual meat puppets might change, but the structure continues endlessly.

There is not a day I wake up and do not think of the World Cup.

The thing about Champions League football is it can turn on an instant. You can have a very good, solid team over the course of the season, but the Champions League is more like the World Cup, where your fate can be decided in a second and you need a bit of luck too.

In a World Cup every single game is important; you are not allowed to make mistakes, not allowed to fail. If you want to win, you have to be there every game.

I want to be in the World Cup.

You need superhuman performances at the World Cup.

You always want to see the best players in action at a World Cup, and the players always want to measure themselves up to the very best.