Quotes About Challenges

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

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 World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.

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

Sometimes when you have difficulties qualifying, you can still go and play a good World Cup.

My generation started in big tournaments. '88 Olympics, we got silver. '89 European Championship, we got gold. 1990 World Cup in Argentina, we got gold. '91 European Championship, we got gold, and then there was a civil war, and for three years, we didn't play.

We arrived at the 2002 World Cup with two titles, very calm, well organised, maybe missing a bit of concentration. But the only truth is on the pitch. The dangers are there.

It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

The World Cup could be a jumping point for many players to change everything.

There is always a group of death in any World Cup. And it's a complement in a way to be in a group of death because it means that you're a good team also.

As a player, perhaps you have the chance to take part in a World Cup or a European Championship twice or three times in a lifetime. Other competitions, you have another match three days later. Here, it's different: we know we're out if we don't win.

Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish.

If you want to win the World Cup, you need to play against the best national teams in the world.

Just emotionally, as amazing as it is to win the World Cup, it's emotionally draining in many ways.

If you can't play under pressure, you shouldn't be at a World Cup.

I don't think one player can ever win a World Cup.

There is always pressure in all matches in the World Cup. This is when you must go beyond your capacity as a competitor.

At the World Cup, it's the very top level. It's going to be tougher.

In the World Cup, you can only play who you are drawn against.

It is more important for us to get exposed so we can learn from it and build than skate through all these tournaments and never have any issues and then feel it in the World Cup.

World Cup is a big platform.

Nobody's going to give you the World Cup; nobody's going to give you an easy game - not Scotland, not Argentina, not Japan, and not whoever we get going forward.

I had to deal with casual sexism while working as a pundit for ITV during the World Cup in Russia.

World Cup 2003 was the worst phase in my career, but that is now behind me, and I am doing all-out efforts to get my place in the team back and further my career.