Quotes About Competition

If you have 48 countries in a World Cup, we have more countries who have the joy of participating.

It is very hard to win the World Cup twice in a row.

It's a World Cup, there's no easy games in this tournament.

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.

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

Hockey is no longer a big four. It's football, basketball, baseball and soccer. Now, I'm not talking MLS. I'm talking COPA, World Cup, men's, women's, MLS, youth... and there's a lot of reasons for it.

You know if you go far in the World Cup you are away for almost two months and I think it's against human nature, not to have families there.

Many clubs use sports psychologists today. But you have to work with a mental coach for months. You can't just start when you are in the World Cup.

If you are playing in any team or even if you represent your country, some pressure is there. This is a World Cup so all the eyes are on you.

For quality and excitement the Champions League is better than the World Cup.

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.

It's the inability to handle the pressure that makes a big difference between the Italian players and the England players when it comes to the World Cup stage.

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

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

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

Kids who dream of reaching the top must grow up looking forward to the big games which define them at every level they play - from Sunday morning in the park to non-League, the top four divisions, Europe and the World Cup.

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

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

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