Quotes About Transition

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.

I wanted to finish at the top of the game and on my own terms. I thought it was the perfect time at the World Cup and to go out at Chelsea. Chelsea and England were immense in how they have supported me in that transition.

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.

Things went so quickly from being a sub in Lille to scoring in the World Cup to signing for Liverpool, but I always had good advice from my parents and my religion to help keep me grounded.

I won the quadruple at 18 with Arsenal, so I didn't really know what I was chasing after the World Cup, and I was a bit lost, so I didn't know whether to just be content at home and just play my football or go for another challenge.

The 2006 World Cup was the summer I came to United so the England thing was kind of ongoing. Getting to the World Cup was massive but it wasn't until I got to United that I had that feeling that winning was a possibility.

In 2004, we were in a rebuilding phase after the disastrous 2003 World Cup campaign, and the batsmen, in particular, did not know where they would bat or what was their role. For example, in the one-dayers, we were playing Shahid Afridi on top of the order, but we didn't consider him for the Tests.

I went through a phase after we won the World Cup of 'what am I going to do with my life.'

For me, ever since the South Africa World Cup, the French team is part of the past.

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

Honestly, during the 2018 World Cup itself, I was saying T20 World Cup was going to be my last.

I became an India player in January 2009 and was therefore paid Rs 40 lakhs. However, in my contract, my category continued as a 2008 World Cup Under-19 player and my contract continued at Rs 20 lakh.

I'd played a few games at the Under-17 World Cup finals, and that's when I agreed a deal with City. In all honesty, I didn't know that much about the club at the time.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it - namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

I was a very protected and confused kid till 24. It was after then, that I started taking my life seriously.

From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

I was a complete vagabond till the age of 20, when I got my first job as an assistant director with Pankaj Parashar.

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.

My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.

I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'

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I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946.