Quotes About Impact

One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.

When you win the World Cup, you start to become a legend - for the people around the world, you are different.

I loved getting messages from people saying they were watching during the World Cup with their son or daughter, and they could see they could be involved, too. That was so powerful.

If there are watching, for the World Cup final, 500 million people or something like that, and 100 million for a women's final, that's a difference. So it's not the same.

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.

Of course Lothar Matthaus is always going to be associated with the 1990 World Cup. But does everyone immediately remember what titles Gunter Netzer, Johan Cruyff or Luis Figo won? Or do they also think about how those players played their football and how they led their teams?

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy.

I think it's pretty crazy when I walk down in the airport and a 12-year-old boy comes up to me and says, 'Hey, I watched you at the World Cup. Great game! Great job!' I love that.

My goal simply was to have an impact, to try to make a contribution and help the team win. I wasn't thinking, 'I want to play well, so I start the next game.' But every kid's dream is to play in the World Cup. Watching at home with your parents when you're 10 years old, you never think you'll be there in the future.

In a World Cup, the girls at Lyon are probably the ones that are going to change the games, and I know them inside out.

Beating a record for the oldest World Cup player means that it's an achievement for my country before it's an achievement for me.

A World Cup without Argentina and without Messi would be a catastrophe.

The 1966 World Cup was the high point of my career. We may have lost the semi-final, but Portuguese football was a big winner.

Many substitutes have won the Euros, World Cup or Champions League without contributing anything.

World history is shaped both positively and negatively by people who judge.

Covid-19 has altered world history.

I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Now, we used to say we put on our tights to put on the world. So I don't think it tarnishes the image at all.

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

I think I maximised my opportunity at Bolton, changing the mindset of the people from when I arrived till the time I left.

I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over.