Quotes About World cup

My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.

The first World Cup I followed was Sweden 1958. I watched the games on TV. Brazil won that World Cup by defeating Sweden 5-2 in the Final and Pele scored twice.

I have the dream of playing at a World Cup and winning a Champions League.

I think every national team has the same possibilities to win the World Cup.

It's what every kid dreams of: winning a World Cup for your country. There's nothing that will ever, ever beat that or even compare to it.

Cameroon can win the World Cup. People think I am crazy when I say this, but if you believe you have the best team in the world, you are stronger.

Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup.

During the 2011 World Cup, I was sitting at the Wankhede Stadium when India won.

It was very difficult to succeed Bert van Marwijk because, two years before, he was second in the World Cup, and then he left a broken-up team behind - so that was much more difficult than you think.

In the 2007 World Cup, Kelly Smith went to another level, scoring twice against Japan and dragging the team forward with an infectious enthusiasm. She changed the dynamic, and we all followed her lead.

Why don't you think we should dream of an African team winning the World Cup for the first time? People never allow this thought to cross their minds, and it is shameful. When you try to even say it, people look at you as if you're joking, but they forget that dreaming is the first step to success.

The main lesson I learned from 2015 is that a World Cup doesn't define a player's career.

From my playing experience in Qatar, I know that it is a country and a region which will host a spectacular and passionate World Cup in 2022.

The World Cup has special games, and losing them hurts more than the other ones.

Getting to the World Cup is a big dream for me.

Everyone looks at who is playing a World Cup. If a player you do not know makes a good impression at the World Cup, you'll notice him more afterwards.

I hope that my first appearance at a World Cup will be marked with a positive outcome.

The popularity of rugby definitely grew in South Africa over the World Cup, and sport has great power, so hopefully it will make some difference. Even if it's just 1%, it's a bit of a change.

I got to be around an England team at a World Cup in Brazil, and that was an amazing experience.

I was called up by England twice. Once for World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Croatia and later for a friendly against Germany.

It wasn't until 1999 when my idols Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly took home the women's World Cup trophy at the Rose Bowl in front of 40 million TV viewers that I remember thinking how rare it was to see women play sports on TV.

I've always dreamed of playing in the World Cup and wearing the Selecao jersey, but I knew how difficult that was, what with me playing in Ukraine for Shakhtar.

Having the opportunity to join the FOX family as a soccer analyst in their Moscow studio for what will be my third World Cup is amazing.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.