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
I’ve always said the World Cup is a dream for any player. — Kylian Mbappe
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
We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup. — Robbie Keane
Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins. — Gary Lineker
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
In South America, football is not as advanced as in Europe, that’s why when you look at the last World Cups it’s always Europeans who win. — Kylian Mbappe
I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best — Neymar
I don’t feel pressure. I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, July 9, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup. — Andrea Pirlo
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win. — Gary Lineker
In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work. — Smriti Mandhana
How marvelous, it’s a young team who are on the top of the world. Some are champions at the age of 19. — Didier Deschamps
I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell. — Alex Ferguson
Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football. — Roger Milla
Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America. — Kevin Keegan
Short World Cup Quotes
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. — Tom Landry
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi — Lewis Grizzard
The coolest man in world cricket MS Dhoni delivers when it most matters! — Michael Vaughan
It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world. — Klay Thompson
Continuity is very important for national teams. — Didier Deschamps
Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled. — Imran Khan
Playing a final is great, but it’s winning it that counts. — Antoine Griezmann
It was a beautiful moment at the end to win a game of this stature. — Mikel Arteta
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. — Jose Mourinho
The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory. — Sepp Herberger
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Rugby World Cup Quotes
You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it. — Phil Kearns
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
After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable. — Andrew Mehrtens
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
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
They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003). — Bernard Laporte
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
Football World Cup Quotes
There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup. — Robbie Savage
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
Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football. — Bobby Charlton
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
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
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
I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone. — Sylvia Plath
We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful. — Jacob Zuma
My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job. — Glenn Hoddle
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. — Sayings
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
World Cup Final Quotes
When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that Dhoni hit in the 2011 World Cup final. — Sunil Gavaskar
Four goals in (16) minutes. Literally I don't even know how that happens especially in a World Cup final. — Abby Wambach
It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant. — Jonah Lomu
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
My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands. — Just Fontaine
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
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
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
I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final. — Jonny Wilkinson
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
Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son. — Eugene H. Peterson
We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best. — Leontyne Price
The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?' — Arthur Ashe
Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I want to win this World Cup and to do that you have to make sacrifices. Defending isn’t my strong point, I’m not Kante, but I’ll happily do it. I have grown up and matured. — Paul Pogba
Acting is the best job in the world. Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. They give you breakfast and a cup of tea and ask, 'Are you all right' They tart up your face, you say somebody else's words, then pick up your check and go home. And you get days off. I tell you, it really is the way to live. — Bob Hoskins
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
Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, “Well, isn’t she full of herself,” smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea. — Anne Lamott
I'm a cup of tea in a world of lattes. — Sayings
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. — Lin Yutang
Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give the sick, the way you lift a dying man, the way you feed a baby, the way you teach a dull child, the way you give medicine to a sufferer of leprosy, the joy with which you smile at your own at home - all this is God's love in the world today. — Mother Teresa
A 3-0 win in the World Cup, it’s never easy. — Didier Deschamps
Today there were imperfections, we did not do everything right but we had those mental and psychological qualities which were decisive for this World Cup. — Didier Deschamps
It was a huge thrill, to step on a pitch of a championship like the World Cup, is a sensation that... You know, passes everything in your head. — Neymar
The adidas +Challenge is a really cool opportunity for kids here in Los Angeles and across the country to get excited for the FIFA World Cup this summer. As a big fan of soccer, Im looking forward to seeing the 32 youth teams compete for the title of Team USA and represent our country at the global finals in Berlin. — Luke Wilson
I have never seen such a World Cup because there was a leveling at the top, the small teams arrived really well prepared. — Didier Deschamps
The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more. — Lionel Messi
I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch. — Simon Kuper
The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location. — Franz Beckenbauer
I lost my virginity under a bridge. I was having sex with this poor girl and I was trying my best, but I was like Scotland at a World Cup - just pleased to be there. — Russell Howard
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
I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that. — Jonny Wilkinson
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
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
The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups. — James Beard
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
If I am a son of God, nothing but God will satisfy my soul; no amount of comfort, no amount of ease, no amount of pleasure, will give me peace or rest. If I had the full cup of all the world's joys held up to me, and could drain it to the dregs, I should still remain thirsty if I had not God. — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
As for the (Ballon d'Or) criteria, I'm not really sure how it works. Sometimes it's a World Cup year, sometimes it isn't. Let them vote. For me, there is no doubt as to who is the best, year after year. — David Villa
Before dying, my last wish will be to see MS Dhoni's World Cup
Winning Six. — Sunil Gavaskar
Sipping a cup of tea, going for a morning walk, doing your work - all these small activities make up your living. And each part, each moment of living, is meaningful. You just have to be there; otherwise, who is going to experience the meaning? People go on drinking tea, but they never are there; their minds are wandering all over the world. — Osho
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