Top 100 Quotes About The World Cup
#1. In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.
Shakira
#2. 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
#3. If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup.
Brian O'Driscoll
#4. If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup.
Andy Gray
#5. The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
Gary Lineker
#6. We knew that if we had to win the World Cup, the defensive side of the game had to be better, which means bowlers will have to bowl tight and we will have to field better.
Ricky Ponting
#7. Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'
Jehane Noujaim
#8. I think every national team has the same possibilities to win the World Cup.
Javier Hernandez
#9. I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.
Jeremy London
#10. 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
#11. I want to reduce my risks as much as possible and hopefully be able to go to the World Cup fit, ready and healthy.
Abby Wambach
#12. I think South Africa has shown it can host such a big event as the World Cup, so why not hold the Olympics at some point in Africa? Maybe not just in one country but in a host of countries.
Jochen Zeitz
#13. I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
Landon Donovan
#14. 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
#15. We wanted to give back to the fans what they've given us, and that is unbelievable support thoughout the World Cup
Carla Overbeck
#16. It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
Sachin Tendulkar
#17. The World Cup only comes around once every four years and is the absolute pinnacle of our sport. It is something we dream about as players. It is a reason why many of us started playing this game. I know myself, my teammates will be focused on what's ahead and what's at stake.
Jozy Altidore
#18. I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.
David Stern
#19. It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun.
Claudio Reyna
#20. I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go ... anywhere.
Michael Phelps
#21. 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 Owen
#22. [Wayne Rooney ] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it hasn't happened for him at the World Cup for one reason or another.
Michael Owen
#23. I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.
Ronaldo
#24. For sure, 2010 was the best year I've ever had. It couldn't have gone any better for me. Even if I just won the Olympic gold medal, that would have made it the best year of my career and the best day of my life, period. Winning the World Cup races and the overall title just topped it off.
Lindsey Vonn
#25. The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.
Alan Hansen
#26. My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.
Just Fontaine
#27. The World Cup is a truly International event.
John Motson
#28. 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
#29. I remember watching the Three Tenors at the World Cup in 1990, and it was amazing. They made opera accessible to the man in the street.
Anton Du Beke
#30. I'm not trying to race the whole men's tour; I just want to race one time. If you know me, which most people on the World Cup do, they know that this is a legitimate goal of mine and not a publicity stunt.
Lindsey Vonn
#31. We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.
Jacob Zuma
#32. 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
#33. It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.
Claudio Reyna
#34. I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.
John Madden
#35. The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.
Jonny Wilkinson
#36. I have reasons to believe that I could win the World Cup, but I take it one race at a time.
Marcel Hirscher
#37. In the World Cup, much depends for every team on how it develops during the tournament. There are always rising tensions. They come from within, and they come from the media.
Franz Beckenbauer
#38. The World Cup gave me a lot of confidence - just to know that I can play at the highest level and not only complete but play well.
Lauren Holiday
#39. Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life ... I couldn't control my tears of joy.
Sachin Tendulkar
#40. As far as the World Cup is concerned, it is a process. We don't want to jump to the 50th floor straight away. We must start on the ground floor.
Sachin Tendulkar
#41. We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing
Graham Taylor
#43. During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.
Abby Wambach
#44. The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.
Sepp Blatter
#45. At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.
Robbie Keane
#46. As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.
Arsene Wenger
#47. Messi on the World Cup 2014? He showed why he is the best player in the world. It was a pleasure to see him play.
Alessandro Del Piero
#48. I think the World Cup is going to be bigger than what a lot of people are anticipating. At this stage in my career, when there is an opportunity, albeit a small one, of being on the team, what a great way to possibly end my career.
Al Leiter
#49. The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.
Pele
#50. It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.
Prince William
#51. 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
#52. I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.
Brian O'Driscoll
#53. My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.
Brian McBride
#54. I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.
Eric Bristow
#55. The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!
Alan Hansen
#56. It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.
Glenn Hoddle
#57. 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
#58. Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.
Serge Schmemann
#59. Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.
Mark Viduka
#60. Success is not winning the World Cup. It may be a goal in your mind but success is having a team that is improving all the time.
Berti Vogts
#61. If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.
Herbert Hainer
#62. An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a little kid, before I even knew what the World Cup tour was.
Hannah Kearney
#63. In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.
Rabih Alameddine
#64. Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.
Vinnie Jones
#65. I was a 21-year-old kid back then and I had my whole career in front of me. We were so close to reaching the World Cup and then we all woke up the next morning to realize our dreams had been dashed.
Russell Latapy
#66. This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.
John Helm
#67. I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
Abby Wambach
#68. The World Cup was a huge frustration because I had prepared really hard for it. But in the World Cup there is no formula, no recipe for success.
Kaka
#69. Congratulations to the Italian people for winning the World Cup ... They won after France's best player got ejected for head butting. That's the closest anyone in a French uniform has come to combat in 60 years
Jay Leno
#70. Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy.
Lionel Messi
#71. They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that ... really!
Sepp Blatter
#72. I think that the World Cup is a big factor for this increased interest. I don't believe all of this is a result of just myself but also because of the others who are playing abroad.
Hidetoshi Nakata
#73. The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.
Sepp Blatter
#74. My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.
Rabih Alameddine
#75. You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.
Peter Shilton
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. First thing she said to me once we got our food: I have one daughter. Thirteen years old. Mia. For Mia Hamm. She was born the day we won the World Cup. So, that's my daughter.
Gillian Flynn
#79. The shot of Kapil Dev kissing the World Cup and hordes of Indian fans all over at Lord's is etched in my memory. Every Indian is proud of that victory, and every Indian player who has played the World Cup after that '83 win wants to bring the Cup home.
Suresh Raina
#80. You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the World Cup. But what they were really interested in was that I was holding a bag that had 'Sex' written on it. It's quite bizarre.
Victoria Beckham
#81. The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.
Pele
#82. When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.
Lindsey Vonn
#83. The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.
Martin Jacques
#85. He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.
Gary Lineker
#86. When they looked in the mirror, the American and Chinese women had begun to see each other's reflection. To reach the World Cup final, the Americans had become tightly connected by the ligaments of teamwork, while the Chinese had realized the necessary freedom of individual expression.
Jere Longman
#87. Nobody criticised me when we qualified for the World Cup when I decided that the best shape for us going forward was three men at the back and stretching the pitch width-wise, which gives you options.
Glenn Hoddle
#88. I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in charge must be passionate and realise he owes it to the nation to win the World Cup.
Dave Whelan
#89. I couldn't have asked for anything more than this. Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life. Thanks to my team-mates. Without them, nothing would have happened. I couldn't control my tears of joy.
Sachin Tendulkar
#90. The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.
George Gregan
#91. 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
#92. I think Neuer changed the game of goalkeeping in the World Cup.
Oliver Kahn
#93. At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.
Franz Beckenbauer
#94. I'm not prepared to make any comments on the World Cup in Qatar in 1922.
Roy Hodgson
#95. My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.
Hope Solo
#96. The Indian team does not need any best wishes - they are going to win anyway. I have been close to Sourav Ganguly, and I hope he does well in the World Cup.
Amitabh Bachchan
#97. I don't feel pressure ... I don't give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.
Andrea Pirlo
#98. "Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup.
Tom Cole
#99. One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.
Rabih Alameddine
#100. Hump it, bump it, whack it! It might be a recipe for a good sex life but it won't win the World Cup.
Ken Bates
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