Quotes About Diversity

When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.

Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

While I am most at home in London, I cannot really label myself as either British or Trinidadian. I write in the English language and live in the U.K. I find it hard to say that I am an entirely British writer, especially when I supported Trinidad in the 2006 World Cup and also support the West Indies cricket team.

I am Brazilian, and that is not going to change, but I want to win the World Cup with Spain.

The World Cup focus is football. Team U.S.A. is more than football.

The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms a global pluralism - it is as much a festival of cultural multiplicity as it is a competition featuring some of the best athletes in the world.

In the World Cup, you have to respect every team.

The World Cup is as big as it gets.

Having played in U.S.A. in 1994, in France in 1998, as well as the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan - the first on the Asian continent - I have witnessed the excitement and passion unleashed in those different parts of the world.

To win the World Cup is not about one player, it is about a squad.

When I was younger Canada took me in. Being able to represent my country in a World Cup would be an amazing experience.

I'd love to see a global competition other than the World Cup.

Sooner or later, an African team will win the World Cup.

If you have 48 countries in a World Cup, we have more countries who have the joy of participating.

Despite its challenges, globalization has led to one of the most peaceful and productive times in world history.

I think we could benefit from world history that is specifically taught in a multi-faceted fashion that allows for an understanding that perspectives on truth can be very different.

I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.

I listen to world music a lot.

English and world music were something that I had immense love for, and to get together with a fellow Indian and bring this sound and vibe to the world feels great.

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.

What I do is always hard for me to explain, but it's like a mixture of New Orleans jazz and world music, with a little bit of Spanish flavour. I just take all that and mix it with Chilliwack, and something comes out!

I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world music, Indian music, Hawaiian music, all kinds.