World Cup Quotes

You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.
Haile Gebrselassie

Win, Country, Same

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
Sachin Tendulkar

Good, Game, Different

I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.
Michael Phelps

Anywhere, Cup, Masters

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.
David Beckham

Made, Sure, Difference

I think everyone around the world knows the tools are there in England's armoury to do well in a World Cup. The challenge is to go out there and prove it.
Steven Gerrard

Challenge, Around, Everyone

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.
Andy Pick

Cricket, Team, Chance

That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.
Angela Merkel

Time, Through, Thought

Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.
Thierry Henry

Time, History, Game

The World Cup is a truly International event.
John Motson

Truly, Event, Cup

And then '74 as I mentioned and then the 1990 world cup was our team was the team of the reunification you know, so we were the team for both sides of Germany so now, you know throughout the last 16 years, we've melted together. And now comes the next milestone.
Jurgen Klinsmann

Together, Team, Last

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.
Art Garfunkel

After, Around, Group

I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.
Cobi Jones

Amazing, Through, Honor

Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.
Cobi Jones

Experience, Idea, Looking

The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.
Cobi Jones

Experience, End, Game

I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.
Cobi Jones

Experience, Justice, Hard

I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
Diego Maradona

Bad, Real, Football

Everybody in Argentina can remember 'the hand of God' in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope.
Diego Maradona

God, Country, Remember

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

Problem, Four, Cup

The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
Gary Lineker

Alone, Confidence, Negative

I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving.
Ruud van Nistelrooy

I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.
Hermann Maier

Left, Goals, Cup

If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.
Hermann Maier

Win, Become, Proud

The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here.
Hermann Maier

Good, Nice, Here

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.
Hermann Maier

Fight, Hard, Win

There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.
Gary Neville

Time, Best, Sorry

I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.
Jeremy London

Cricket, Late, Watching

If I'd still been in one piece from the World Cup and gone through my career, what type of player would I have been? No doubt about it, if I hadn't had as many injuries I would have been the all-time leading scorer for England.
Michael J. Owen

Doubt, Career, Through

I'd love to go and I'd love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I've got to accept I'm not in the current squad and just think, 'If I get it, it's a bonus and I'll give it everything.' But it's hard to do when you've been thinking a different way all your life.
Michael J. Owen

Life, Love, Hard

This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.
Otto Schily

Help, Important, Between

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.
Alan Hansen

Best, Team, Against

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