Fifa World Quotes

#1. If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

Michel Patini

#2. Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

Pope Francis

#3. Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.

Peter Elbow

#4. It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

Landon Donovan

#5. FIFA should show the world that it is truly a global organisation.

Chung Mong-joon

#6. Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

#7. Rob Green needed to get the long barrier out, didn't he?

James Anderson

#8. There weren't perfect people, nor were there perfect lives or perfect relationships. There were, however, perfect moments. And this was one of them.

Nicole Williams

#9. This is my first FIFA Women's World Cup . For me, to see how I have reacted to this tournament ... I'm totally in.

Alexi Lalas

#10. The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Vladimir Putin

#11. The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

Pele

#12. FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.

Sepp Blatter

#13. As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

Len Goodman

#14. You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect.

Mel Brooks

#15. I'm a homebody, I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

Milo Ventimiglia

#16. Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we.

Sepp Blatter

#17. She was obsessed with the idea of breaking with everything she had ever known or experienced, and starting on something new.

Boris Pasternak

#18. Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. Of course the toughest part for the soccer officials was taking bribes without using their hands.

Jimmy Fallon

#19. What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.

Sepp Blatter

#20. I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

Louis Gossett Jr.