Quotes About Performance

When you make your final list for the World Cup or European Championship you don't take the 23 best players, that is for sure.

When you come to a World Cup with Germany you are expected to win it.

The first one is your first World Cup, so you go into it with a lot of pressure, trying to take it all in, but you are just so focused.

It's true that if it's always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you're a success, and if you don't, you're a failure, then you're bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren't many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven't.

The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!

The World Cup is a tournament that practically does not allow errors, especially in the final.

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.

I've scored many goals that I've liked, but I think the best memory I have is the one against Korea in the 2010 World Cup.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.

At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.

Every game at the World Cup is like a final.

In a World Cup you don't have anywhere to hide.

For Spain, the more I play, the more goals I score, the more chance I have of making the World Cup and starting games.

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.

When you go to a World Cup, you must be ready to play at any time.

I have played the World Cup qualifiers on the left wing, and that position suits me fine.

There are a lot of players competing for that wide attacking role, and if I'm brutally honest, if you aren't playing regularly, you can't get picked. I found that out, missing out on the World Cup.

My goal is to play at the World Cup.

The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

We knew that if we had to win the World Cup, the defensive side of the game had to be better, which means bowlers will have to bowl tight and we will have to field better.

To participate in a World Cup is a great honour and achievement. I've played in three World Cups. The whole world watches you during a World Cup and expects you to play innings to win games for your country.