Quotes About Tournament

I've scored many goals that I've liked, but I think the best memory I have is the one against Korea in the 2010 World Cup.

It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

When a World Cup is held in France, it's such an incredible even.

The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.

The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.

Every player would love to play a tournament like the World Cup at home.

There is always a group of death in any World Cup. And it's a complement in a way to be in a group of death because it means that you're a good team also.

England is a team that is used to playing in World Cup finals.

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia.

Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.

You can't predict anything in football, particularly in the World Cup.

It's my biggest dream as a soccer player: I always wanted to play in the World Cup.

To be the best in a tournament like the World Cup is a success for me personally.

Every tournament and every international game played gives you additional experience which brings you forward, both on the pitch and off it, but there is nothing more special than playing a World Cup on home soil.

The World Cup was the biggest thing ever for the national team, but the Champions League is the biggest thing for clubs.

After the World Cup, the next two or three days there is a lot of celebration, a lot of obligation, towards the country, towards the French Federation, towards the fans. And then, after that, you feel so empty - mentally and physically. It's a long tournament; it demands a lot of energy and a lot of emotion.

There is always pressure in all matches in the World Cup. This is when you must go beyond your capacity as a competitor.

In the World Cup finals, you're unlikely to meet a continental rival. In Copa America, you know they are just around the corner and that you will have to beat them to win the competition.

For Brazil, the World Cup really starts in the knockout rounds.

I remember how I, too, was part of the Azlan Shah tournament for the first time in 2005. After that, I went to the Junior World Cup. I remember how much I benefited from the exposure.

When I was a player, and since then, we have never been so snobbish as to go into a tournament saying, 'We will win this World Cup.' We aren't like that.

Football is strange, especially after a World Cup.