Quotes About Nationality

It's every kid's dream to represent their country at a World Cup.

To play a World Cup for your country is everything you dream of.

I think I have had my story with France. Unfortunately, it's not the story I would have liked. I would have liked to have played a World Cup; I would have liked to have done a lot more for the French national team.

I'm so proud to represent my country at a World Cup because lots of players don't ever get that opportunity, including our manager, Phil Neville. He's reminded us of all the hard work he put in to try and get there, only for him to never make it past the last hurdle.

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.

After World Cup 2010 in South Africa I will no longer play for la Nazionale.

When I was younger Canada took me in. Being able to represent my country in a World Cup would be an amazing experience.

To be one of only three Englishmen to have scored in a World Cup finaI is amazing.

I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that, I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.

After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

To be honest, I don't particularly see myself as an Icelandic artist. I'm a European artist.

I feel like I'm both, half Australian and half Swedish. I've been in Sweden most of my life but my dad's Australian. I eat Vegemite on my toast and all of that.

I don't want to say I see myself playing for England. I played with the likes of Daniel Sturridge and Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley. It is nice to see them being given the chance to play for their country.

On identity politics: "The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

He glared at Jorge. "I doubt you're American, but we'll throw you in as a bonus.

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Are you an American? No, I am not an American. I am the American.

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.

The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.

You could tell by looking at them they were all fucking British squaddies.' I

I learned never to lazily conflate countries, their government's policies, and the people who live in them.