Quotes About Tournament

It's an amazing opportunity to be around at the right time and play in a home World Cup.

It is more important for us to get exposed so we can learn from it and build than skate through all these tournaments and never have any issues and then feel it in the World Cup.

I have always wanted to play in the World Cup.

It's every cricketer's dream to play in the World Cup.

When I was the coach at Mainz in the Bundesliga, a small club in Germany, we always wanted to play the big teams every two years, right after a major tournament, whether it was a World Cup or European Championships.

The 2017 European Championship was my first major tournament for England, but everyone tells me the World Cup is a different level.

Maybe apart from the World Cup, the Champions League is one of the most important trophies in the world of football.

The World Cup is a really long tournament, so you have to prepare for whatever.

I'm sure Jofra Archer will be loving heading into his first World Cup. He is in the dressing room as he comes across on the field - laidback and very confident in his ability.

Obviously, I want to do well in the Champions Trophy, which is like a mini World Cup with all top teams participating.

World Cup is very special because it happens once in four years, so for every individual, it's very special.

Sometimes the media highlight a record for me that I did not know anything about but setting a record at a prestigious tournament like the World Cup makes me happy.

It's a goal to get myself in the squad for the World Cup.

Ultimately it's your club form that decides whether you play at a World Cup because there aren't many England games throughout the season.

A World Cup in Brazil is the greatest event in which a footballer can play.

I never dreamed I would captain England in a home World Cup.

A burning ambition of mine is to take Scotland to a major tournament. It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup finals with their country.

The World Cup is not a normal one-day series.

When I think back to the 2006 World Cup on home soil, we came close but nobody really expected us to get very far. We simply lost to a better team and Italy went on to win it.

It's important that you prepare the players for what happens at a tournament, like a World Cup, for example. You can get a better idea of a situation. They can get to know the conditions, the atmosphere in the country, the stadiums and the journeys involved.

Obviously, we don't want to go into a World Cup thinking low about the team. We are very positive and had some good practice matches, which should give us confidence.

It's a gift to be offered the opportunity to play the World Cup.

One-day cricket is about the World Cup and Test cricket is about the Ashes.

With respect to Qatar as a country that wants to grow, you can't have a World Cup in a country that doesn't have football.