Quotes About England

It's still my ambition to be at the top level and be playing for England - especially, like, a competition like the 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.

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

I've played for England Under-21s, in the Under-20 World Cup and I've been part of the play-offs in the Championship. But in terms of helping my career and getting me ready, going to Cheltenham Town was a massive experience.

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.

I've been lucky enough to experience some big tournaments at Under-21 level and would love to be part of a World Cup in England.

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

I would never dream of telling them how to play but it would be amazing if England won the World Cup.

It was so disappointing the way it ended but, to play for England in the World Cup, was still the highlight of my career.

It's the inability to handle the pressure that makes a big difference between the Italian players and the England players when it comes to the World Cup stage.

Of course I want to get into the England World Cup team, especially having been so close, but I'm not going to be concentrating on it or let it be at the front of my mind.

There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet!

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

In England, it's usually cold. So surfing is more of an adventure where you're floating around in a big, dark, stormy sea rather than the California notion of girls in bikinis on beaches. It's really going into the fray. I like it because it gives you the extra time and space you need to think.

Whenever I can, I like to go to Cotswolds, in England, where my husband had a cottage. I spend my time reading his diaries, which I would like to publish.

The big difference between league football in England and Spain is that more teams compete here. In Spain, it is usually only two teams going for the title, which is not necessarily a bad thing because you get great matches between the two, but I think the English league is better for being more competitive.

In England, there are five, six, seven big clubs, and you can never be sure who will win the title in the end. It's very exciting.

When you win the FA Cup, you have a title and a very respectable title in England - more than other countries.

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.

To be honest, I don't think I've played bad for England, I've certainly not been as bad as some people say. That criticism has been hard to take. I don't think I've let the country down too many times.

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in terms of an open democracy, as well as an understanding of the needs for responsibilities and obligations to run alongside the affirmation of individual rights.

As a defender it can also be more frustrating to play in Italy because referees do not tolerate too much physical contact. I loved the physical nature of the game in England, but in Serie A I only have to look at a player and they sometimes fall to the floor!

I was born in Amersham, England on 6/4/58. My family moved to Australia when I was eight, and I went to Box Hill High School and then Melbourne High School. I liked to draw and write at school, and I liked books by J.R.R. Tolkien, A.A. Milne and Kenneth Grahame.