Quotes About Achievement

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

Playing at the World Cup stage excites me.

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 always dream to have a great World Cup.

I was watching the 2014 World Cup, and I was playing with the U-17s, I think, at the time. I remember watching it in the summer, and I was like, 'You know what? It's a pretty crazy goal, but I want to be there in 2018.'

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

To be the best in a tournament like the World Cup is a success for me personally.

I want to continue to win things, hopefully something with England, and if I can score the winning goal at the World Cup, then maybe they will like me again.

In order to make history, you have to win the World Cup. It's not good enough just to reach a final.

The Premier League and the World Cup are equally important to me.

To be honest, I was never expecting to be in a World Cup final, a Euro final, a Champions League final, a Europa League final. I've done much more than I dreamt, and that's incredible.

I won't win a World Cup, and I won't win the Olympics, but I'm sure I can compete with the best, and that's what I want to show.

I've won an Olympic title and an U-20 World Cup, but it'd be really special to round things off with a Copa title with the seniors.

I know that nobody will be satisfied with anything less than coming home with the World Cup.

I want to go to the World Cup and enjoy it.

It's every kid's dream to represent their country at a World Cup.

Not many people can say their family has seen them play at a World Cup.

Messi is always compared to Maradona, but he needs to win the World Cup because if you don't win the World Cup, you can't be up there with the very best.

Obviously, the World Cup is nice and the Euros is really nice as well, but I have always dreamed of the Champions League.

I see football as a bit like a stairway, and you have to climb it bit by bit. First, you have to play good football so that you get to play for a good team. Then, hopefully you achieve such a level that you are invited to play for your national side, in time for a World Cup, if possible.

First, you have to play good football so that you get to play for a good team. Then, hopefully, you achieve such a level that you are invited to play for your national side, in time for a World Cup if possible. Then, obviously, play a good World Cup. That's my dream.

The World Cup was the biggest thing ever for the national team, but the Champions League is the biggest thing for clubs.

I never think I want to go to another World Cup just to be in the record books again and play in six tournaments or four World Cups. If I am lucky enough to go, I want to go there to fight for my place and win something in an England shirt.

To play a World Cup for your country is everything you dream of.