Quotes About World cup

This is the World Cup, and you need all the elements in place: a good coach, luck, and a cohesive team unit are fundamental requirements.

The players you really feel bad for are the younger players, who haven't had a chance to experience playing in a World Cup.

I got to experience being captain in the World Cup. For me, that was something special, and I'll always kind of remember, but it's never been a big thing for me to be captain.

In a World Cup, the girls at Lyon are probably the ones that are going to change the games, and I know them inside out.

I'm so proud to represent my country at a World Cup because lots of players don't ever get that opportunity, including our manager, Phil Neville. He's reminded us of all the hard work he put in to try and get there, only for him to never make it past the last hurdle.

Obviously, everyone's journey is different, and we all have different ambitions and beliefs as kids as to whether we're actually going to be able to play in a World Cup and whether it can be a dream that can come true. For me and for my family, it's very surreal.

I always say I'll rest when I die - that's my motto. I just hope I don't die before the World Cup!

When I was a player, and since then, we have never been so snobbish as to go into a tournament saying, 'We will win this World Cup.' We aren't like that.

A World Cup is always special because it is the highest podium on which you can show your abilities as an individual player or coach, and as a team.

It is the dream of all the children of the world to play in the World Cup final.

Every day growing up, I had this dream about the World Cup: I score the winning goal. In the final minute. With my butt!

Football is strange, especially after a World Cup.

For the players, these top, top, top games or these top, top, top events - like a World Cup or a European Championship - are not common but, of course, something special.

In 1992, I was part of the Test team and played the Tri-series too. But, I missed the World Cup after being left out of the squad since I was fairly young.

It's an amazing opportunity to be around at the right time and play in a home World Cup.

Delighted with the opportunity to represent India at the World Cup. This is a dream come true for any cricketer. I will do all that I can to contribute to a World Cup win.

It's every cricketer's dream to play in the World Cup.

The pressures of playing in the World Cup are different, but it was because we coped with them in 1992 under Imran Khan's guidance and influence that we won the Cup.

When I was the coach at Mainz in the Bundesliga, a small club in Germany, we always wanted to play the big teams every two years, right after a major tournament, whether it was a World Cup or European Championships.

Playing at the Women's World Cup is my long-term goal and, hopefully, I can contribute to winning a medal.

That first game was so hyped up, and it was obviously my first experience of a crowd in a World Cup. When I first walked out and heard the national anthem, it was just an unreal experience. I didn't expect a crowd like that.

After the World Cup, it was so intense, and a lot of pressure was put on me - unfairly, I thought, at times - and it is always a worry, but you get older, you get a better support team, and I haven't hidden the fact about my past, and I never will because I'm not ashamed of it.

The 2017 European Championship was my first major tournament for England, but everyone tells me the World Cup is a different level.

Football is my priority. It's a short career, and you have to make the most of it, which is why making the World Cup squad is such a big deal and something I will never take for granted.