Quotes About Nationalism

There is nothing nicer than playing in a World Cup against France, England, or Spain. There is nothing nicer than instead of playing a friendly, you can play a game where, if you win, you can make history.

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.

This is the whole reason you play: to win your country a World Cup!

A World Cup would only be a true experience if I were wearing the Brazilian shirt. Otherwise, it would just be like playing for a club.

Going to the World Cup and being in the national team would be the ultimate.

The first important thing is representing the country. That feeling will always be there, be it World Cup or any other tournament.

Germans have a rich history of playing well in the World Cup.

Every footballer wants to take part in a World Cup with his country.

It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup Finals with their country.

When you go to a World Cup, the whole nation should be behind the team - and then the team have to play their part, too.

The goal is to win the World Cup for India but my personal goal is representing India in Tests.

When I was growing up, we didn't qualify for the 1982 and 1986 World Cup and the 1984 Euros. And then suddenly we won in 1988. It goes up and down. We are a small country.

Playing for your country is special, especially in the World Cup.

He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

Mr. Trump's travel ban has never really been about security. Rather, it's the tip of the spear in a much broader battle: to drastically curtail immigration to the United States that is changing the complexion of our country.

If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry.

That's what we're gonna do, baby, bring the titles back to Mexico.

I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

I try to put myself in others' shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don't think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide.

We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.

All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.

I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level push on it, is if some other country, perhaps China, were to actually have a landed flight to the moon and brought back our American flag and put it in Tiananmen Square.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.