Quotes About Focus

To win the World Cup, you win it one bit at a time.

Winning the Absa Cape Epic already was a wonderful surprise. The World Cup was, for sure, my main goal, but winning all of them was nothing I had planned on.

My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job.

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.

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.

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.

I'm happy staying in the World Cup bubble with England and eliminating the distractions. Besides, I want to enjoy every minute of this unique experience, and I don't want to look back and think that I was just sat on my phone.

I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.

Every game at the World Cup is like a final.

Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five.

Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.

People ask me, 'What were you thinking during that game-winning penalty kick in the 2011 World Cup?' I was actually thinking absolutely nothing. I just walked up there and was so inspired by my teammates who rocked all their PKs; they just killed it. I figured I might as well do the same, or they might have my neck.

Training has always been top level. No matter if it's at a World Cup or not, training's been really good and at a high level.

I've got a massive opportunity here with a great bunch of players to represent England at a World Cup; that's my biggest focus now.

Every league game is like the World Cup. The passion... intense, the desire for points.

When you are in the World Cup, you must focus on seven matches and not losing any.

Starting in a World Cup is always complicated, hard, and important. When you start well... The rest of the competitors are watching. I think it's the most important match in a World Cup, along with the final.

To be honest, the football and the time is going so fast. I don't want to say that I've forgotten about the World Cup, but for me, it belongs to the past. I don't have time to make a step backwards and think about the World Cup.

Those who know me well know that the World Cup is my goal.

The World Cup is a really long tournament, so you have to prepare for whatever.

Once you reach the knockout stage of a World Cup, the team that holds its nerves wins.

I am not thinking about World Cup and all those things. You can't play freely if you start thinking like that.

The World Cup is what we've done all them hours for. It's why we give up normal life.

Being able to put the ball in the back of the net is so important at the highest level and could be the difference between reaching the semi-finals and actually winning the World Cup.