Quotes About World cup

Something you look at when you go into a World Cup is your depth and your players that change the game.

I don't know what I was expecting the World Cup to be like. I never thought to ask anybody; maybe I should have. I've never played in a stadium with, like, 20,000 watching. It was an intense sensory experience.

It's going to be a massive honour to represent your country, if selected, for the World Cup.

It would be a dream to go to my first World Cup.

The competition for World Cup places is massive, and you can't just rest on what you've done in the past or anything like that.

I am extremely elated to be in the Indian World Cup team. This is like a dream come true.

God helped me crown my football career with a participation in the World Cup.

All I can focus on is playing as many games as I can at the highest level. If that leads me to the World Cup, then brilliant. It's certainly a target of mine.

A World Cup in Brazil is the greatest event in which a footballer can play.

Back in 2005, we lost in the semi-final of the World Cup and that was a great learning curve for the team. It gave us a goal and even more of a hunger to win the World Cup, so we went away and set ourselves a long-term plan to do it.

I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.

I never dreamed I would captain England in a home World Cup.

I want to win games, want to win championships. I want to go to the World Cup. I want to win a World Cup. I want to play in Champions League. I want to have fun throughout all of that, and I want my family to be a part of that through the entire path.

I went to the World Cup and didn't play, but I came back with an even higher opinion of Gareth Southgate. It's all about how you treat somebody.

My best World Cup memory as a fan? The Michael Owen goal against Argentina at the 1998 World Cup in France.

I'd never allow myself to imagine winning the World Cup. Cynical me!

My first World Cup appearance remains fresh in my memory and what made it incredible was that I had made my first appearance for Nigeria just a year before.

A burning ambition of mine is to take Scotland to a major tournament. It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup finals with their country.

In World Cup qualifying in 1997, I will never forget Tony Adams and Sol Campbell: two very strong lions physically and mentally. Italy too had and has formidable defenders, but I have a great memory of those two. It was a pleasure to fight against them.

I loved every minute of my 17-year career, all the Test matches, the ODIs and the World Cups. The only disappointment, if you ask me, was I never won a World Cup for West Indies.

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

I'm fully aware that Qatar are striving to become one of the leading sporting nations and they have big plans for football. Winning the honour of hosting the 2022 World Cup is the best possible proof of their intentions.

I'm a fan of how Zinedine Zidane ended his career, right after a World Cup.

The Brazilian press doesn't allow us to forget the World Cup in 1950, when we lost the final in a full Maracana.