Quotes About Commitment

I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.

Nobody is offered a World Cup.

If you're not going to the World Cup expecting to win, then you probably shouldn't go.

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.

I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

If African teams can realize the importance of team spirit they will know that they can win a World Cup.

I remember, before the 2003 World Cup, I worked extremely hard on my fitness. A great deal of training and dietary discipline. I believe I lost 19 kg. And 19 is the number of runs I scored in the entire tournament.

I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.

It might sound very cocky or naive of me, or self-centered, but I want to win a World Cup for my country.

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.

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.

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.

My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.

I've got to do everything extra to put myself in the best shape to get in the World Cup squad.

If I can push myself up to the 2018 World Cup, then I'll go on. After that, I'll close the door and stop playing football.

When I got dropped for the World Cup, there were times I didn't want to play anymore. I didn't want to practise. I couldn't motivate myself. Then I said, 'Look what are the options?' Cricket is the only option. Whether I play happily or sadly, it's still all I have. There are not a lot of things I am good at.

At one point, when I didn't make the 2007 World Cup squad, I was very, very frustrated. Then I became very hard on myself. Whenever I used to go to the nets, or when I trained in the gym, I was very hard on myself. I couldn't sleep; I used to think a lot. Very, very desperate to make a comeback.

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.

Make the boys go off to the World Cup with a clear head, that everyone is behind them and everyone is with them, and trust me: I think you would definitely see a better England.

I won't win a World Cup, and I won't win the Olympics, but I'm sure I can compete with the best, and that's what I want to show.

I tried to do everything on the pitch to play at the World Cup. It wasn't enough.

I never think I want to go to another World Cup just to be in the record books again and play in six tournaments or four World Cups. If I am lucky enough to go, I want to go there to fight for my place and win something in an England shirt.

After 2012, I wanted to stop, but my father told me I had to play the World Cup. I tried to be good.