Quotes About Pride

Beating a record for the oldest World Cup player means that it's an achievement for my country before it's an achievement for me.

For a player or coach, there is nothing better than the World Cup.

You can't win anything more special than a World Cup.

I can remember lacing up my boots ahead of my first cap against Japan in the 1995 World Cup in South Africa. I remember the changing room, the smell of the place, every last detail of how I warmed up, walking out onto the pitch, thinking how proud my parents would be. I was doing all I ever wanted to do.

People have been saying life will change for us now but me? No chance. I may be a World Cup winner but I will always be the lad who played cricket with his friends and cousins in the park on Stoney Lane in south Birmingham using an old milk crate for stumps.

I loved every minute of my 17-year career, all the Test matches, the ODIs and the World Cups. The only disappointment, if you ask me, was I never won a World Cup for West Indies.

Personal vanity has no place in a World Cup.

We have big goals at Bayern and always want to go as far as possible in each competition and win silverware. But it is great to have won the World Cup. You are a world champion for your entire life. A lof of people talk about it and it remains very special. But it's not like I think about the World Cup each morning I wake up.

Germans have a rich history of playing well in the World Cup.

Every footballer wants to take part in a World Cup with his country.

Me and a lot of my team-mates still think and speak about the World Cup in 1994, when Sweden finished third.

My dream is to win the World Cup with an African team, for my continent.

It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup Finals with their country.

While we play for the club we are focused on usual routine, but when we are with the national team and the new kit is unveiled we feel closer to the World Cup.

There is not a day I wake up and do not think of the World Cup.

We all want to win the World Cup, achieve great things, not only personally but also as a team for the U.S.

It is the dream of every player. Imagine winning the World Cup in your own country. It would be the happiest day of my career.

It was an amazing feeling to be able to win a World Cup and at home in Australia.

For me, I think the Champions League is the biggest trophy, but playing for your country in the World Cup... it's hard to choose.

The World Cup is made up of human relationships, you have to feel how the dressing room is established, how the players interact, the responsibility, the joy, the pride, you try to balance things out. If you're hyper, you try to slow it down; if you're a bit low, you try to hype it up.

When I was younger Canada took me in. Being able to represent my country in a World Cup would be an amazing experience.

To be one of only three Englishmen to have scored in a World Cup finaI is amazing.

It's so important to be chosen for the national team. For the Copa America, for the World Cup, or just friendly matches, it's such an honour to reach that stage and be chosen for the team. People expect players to wear Brazil's shirt, win the title with pride, and keep winning. You have to have the mental strength to get over this pressure.

It's definitely the biggest honour to captain your country at a World Cup. Only three others have done it before me so it's obviously massive. I enjoyed every minute of it.