Quotes About World Cup

#1. I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

Jonny Wilkinson

#2. 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

#3. I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at this level. There are a lot of great female jockeys.

Chantal Sutherland

#4. 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

#5. I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.

Hermann Maier

#6. If you can beat New Zealand, then you're probably going to win the World Cup.

Brian O'Driscoll

#7. If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup.

Andy Gray

#8. You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.

Arjuna Ranatunga

#9. Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.

Robert Wagner

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

Gary Lineker

#11. 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

#12. I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap.

Joshua Cohen

#13. Hattie handed me a fresh cup of coffee. "Off you go now. Write a masterpiece that will save the world," she cackled nudging me out of the kitchen.

Kaylie Hunter

#14. Only the Word is the answer to rightly reading the world, because The Word has nail-scarred hands that cup our face close, wipe away the tears running down, has eyes to look deep into our brimming ache, and whisper, I know. I know.

Ann Voskamp

#15. After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.

Oliver Kahn

#16. Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'

Jehane Noujaim

#17. I think every national team has the same possibilities to win the World Cup.

Javier Hernandez

#18. Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.

David Campese

#19. I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

Jeremy London

#20. I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, 'It wasn't Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no.' (Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.)

Jimmy Fallon

#26. I will allow others to be there for me. I will share my feelings. I'm not allowed to fake it! I will view the world as a positive place. The cup is half full, not half empty.

Ronnie Sellers

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

Matthew Hayden

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

Pele

#33. If you qualify for a World Cup and expect to get an easy group, you are in the wrong sport. It doesn't work like that.

Tim Howard

#34. I had a great experience at the [2011] World Cup. Unfortunately, we didn't end on the note we wanted to, but I still had an Amazing time representing our country and playing in front of thousands of fans.

Amy Rodriguez

#35. When it's game situation, when it's game day, game time, when it's World Cup, when it's these tournaments that happen once every so often, I live for that, I live for that challenge.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#36. The wheel turns. Blue above, green below, we wander a long way, but love is what the cup of our soul contains when we leave the world and the flesh.

Louise Murphy

#37. We wanted to give back to the fans what they've given us, and that is unbelievable support thoughout the World Cup

Carla Overbeck

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

Sachin Tendulkar

#39. The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#40. I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.

Jermain Defoe

#41. 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

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

Michel Patini

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go ... anywhere.

Michael Phelps

#46. 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

#47. [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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

Alan Hansen

#51. 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

#52. My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.

Just Fontaine

#53. Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

Jonny Wilkinson

#54. I raised my cup in salute. "We are out to save the world and we are riding Dragons. It's a Big Damn Quest and we are Big Damn Heroes." Ember

Bryan Fields

#55. Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.

Tina Fey

#56. I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side ... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

Vicente Del Bosque

#57. The World Cup is a truly International event.

John Motson

#58. My flat's about half a mile away, and you know what I'd like most of all in the world? I'd like a cup of tea. Come on, let's go and put the kettle on.

Philip Pullman

#59. 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

#60. Before dying, my last wish will be to see MS Dhoni's World Cup
Winning Six.

Sunil Gavaskar

#61. 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

#62. Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.

Neymar

#63. 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

#64. One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.

Fannie Flagg

#65. Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish.

Lorrie Fair

#66. When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

Lleyton Hewitt

#67. When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that Dhoni hit in the 2011 World Cup final.

Sunil Gavaskar

#68. A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee.
These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days.

R.M. Engelhardt

#69.
a drive in the country, an expedition to a shoe shop a quiet cup of tea under a cloudless sky; each of us had something that made it easier to continue in a world that sometimes, just sometimes, was not as we might wish it to be.

Alexander McCall Smith

#70. We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

Jacob Zuma

#71. After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: The French are predictably unpredictable.

Andrew Mehrtens

#72. There is always a group of death in any World Cup. And it's a complement in a way to be in a group of death because it means that you're a good team also.

George Vecsey

#73. In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.

Gianluigi Buffon

#74. They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy.

Timothy F. Cahill

#75. 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

#76. Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.

Lata Mangeshkar

#77. You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.

Brian O'Driscoll

#78. A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.

Mike Tindall

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. Nothing in this world is poison.
Nothing is bad in God's whole creation; everything is nectar. It is man alone who has transformed
this full cup of nectar into poison.

Osho

#83. My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.

Hope Solo

#84. I have reasons to believe that I could win the World Cup, but I take it one race at a time.

Marcel Hirscher

#85. Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

Daley Thompson

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.

Marianne Vos

#89. Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life ... I couldn't control my tears of joy.

Sachin Tendulkar

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

Graham Taylor

#93. It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

Alisher Usmanov

#94. I Can't win the World Cup alone

AB De Villiers

#95. Welcome, welcome to Caraval! The grandest show on land or by sea. Inside you'll experience more wonders than most people see in a lifetime. You can sip magic from a cup and buy dreams in a bottle. But before you fully enter into our world, you must remember it's all a game.

Stephanie Garber

#96. 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

#97. The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.

Sepp Blatter

#98. Everyone knows that England are a far better team than their World Cup performance suggests. It's vital that we play with confidence and take the strength and competition of the engage Super League in to the Four Nations.

Paul Sculthorpe

#99. 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

#100. 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