Quotes About Soccer

The World Cup ball is very fast, and you need to think very quickly, when to punch and when to catch.

I have won the Champions League, won the FIFA Club World Cup, the FA Cup, the Italian Super Cup, the Spanish league twice, nine trophies, all the trophies you can win at club level.

Winning the Europa League with Atletico Madrid and then reaching a semi-final of the World Cup is great.

Those who know me well know that the World Cup is my goal.

For everyone, the World Cup is important. It doesn't matter if you are 21, going for your first one, or 35 and going for your third one. It's the biggest stage you can play on, and every opportunity to experience it is something special.

Having played in U.S.A. in 1994, in France in 1998, as well as the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan - the first on the Asian continent - I have witnessed the excitement and passion unleashed in those different parts of the world.

In a World Cup, the girls at Lyon are probably the ones that are going to change the games, and I know them inside out.

Scoring a goal for England is special. Scoring in a World Cup is even more special.

I still can't believe I'm going to a World Cup.

Like many of us in the England squad, I wasn't even born when the men's team played Cameroon in the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup, so I couldn't tell you much about that game.

It is the dream of all the children of the world to play in the World Cup final.

Every day growing up, I had this dream about the World Cup: I score the winning goal. In the final minute. With my butt!

The thing that made it so hard to get that call from Jill Ellis in 2015, letting me know I wouldn't be at the World Cup, was that I felt like I'd lost what I love most about putting on the U.S. kit: representation.

Sometimes I wear makeup while I play - I did it during the World Cup because the cameras were always on us, but for club, not so much. If I'm wearing it on the field, I try not to apply too much.

Playing at the Women's World Cup is my long-term goal and, hopefully, I can contribute to winning a medal.

That first game was so hyped up, and it was obviously my first experience of a crowd in a World Cup. When I first walked out and heard the national anthem, it was just an unreal experience. I didn't expect a crowd like that.

Nobody's going to give you the World Cup; nobody's going to give you an easy game - not Scotland, not Argentina, not Japan, and not whoever we get going forward.

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

I wanted to score the winning goal in the 90th minute of the World Cup final.

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

If you win the Champions League, you become known across the globe, but the World Cup has always thrown up new stars and developments.

When you go to a World Cup, in midfield you need to have players who can score from distance, who can get in the box and obviously play-make.

We hope girls are inspired to start playing at a younger age and try to get to a World Cup themselves.

Missing the chance to go to the 2007 World Cup was the biggest disappointment of my career.