Quotes About Challenge

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.

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

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

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

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.

The World Cup is the toughest challenge there is. You have seven matches where you have to bring your best and cannot let up at any turn.

The greatest challenge of a World Cup is having mental fortitude. The pressure is immense.

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

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.

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

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.

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.

If resources become scarce, people tend to fight for them. This is increasing the number of people on the move and the number of people forced to move. They're not refugees, according to the legal definition, but they represent a major humanitarian and human rights challenge, as well as a major challenge for world politics.

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

When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn't do anything about it.

I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.

I felt I was never going to beat Igor Ter-Ovanesyan or Ralph Boston because they were the joint world record holders.

When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds.

The heptathlon world record is nice, but the decathlon is the event. I think the heptathlon is more like a practice. There is something completely different about the decathlon.

Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.