Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Quotes

I was always happy to play for the Dutch national team.

I'm delighted when Scotland qualify either for the World Cup or the European Championship. I always take a vested interest in Scotland's result, and it creates the opportunity for a drink in our house when they do well.

I've played with Jan Vertonghen for Ajax and the national team.

My generation started in big tournaments. '88 Olympics, we got silver. '89 European Championship, we got gold. 1990 World Cup in Argentina, we got gold. '91 European Championship, we got gold, and then there was a civil war, and for three years, we didn't play.

I used to play as a striker in Holland. I grew up as a striker. That's the position I want to play.

Germans have a rich history of playing well in the World Cup.

I tried to do everything on the pitch to play at the World Cup. It wasn't enough.

I think all great players set a target for themselves in their careers. Mine was to win a world title with Brazil, which I did twice.

Argentina have always had the best strikers in the world.

Winning the title in my first season at City was a dream come true, but the downside was not being selected for Spain's World Cup squad.

I never dreamed I would captain England in a home World Cup.

Going to the World Cup and being in the national team would be the ultimate.

My childhood closet was ornamented with U.S. jerseys of World Cups spanning the nineties and two-thousands - some of my favorite memories are from summers when, with a ball under my foot and a jersey on my back, I watched the U.S. team go up against the world's best players in the largest sporting event on Earth.

I think England has got some great players.

I joke that I only play in World Cups.

Belgium have a very good team. There are dozens of teams that say we want to become the world champions.

Playing in the Copa America would be an important thing for me, just like the Olympics, because Brazil has never won the gold medal there.

I've been fortunate to play with many great players, including Cristiano Ronaldo for Portugal.

I waited for a long time for a call-up for Les Bleus, but that call never came.

Striker Sandro Wagner is very strong, a true No. 9, who really made his mark playing with Germany in the Confederations Cup.

I'm a forward, and I dream of a goal in the World Cup, pushing it, kicking it from outside the box, wherever. I dream of scoring at a World Cup.

For Brazil, the World Cup really starts in the knockout rounds.

I definitely see this team, the Canadian national team, definitely fighting for a spot in the 2022 World Cup.

The challenge of coaching a national side like England would be something different. The job is not about coaching every day.

Of course, for the national team it is good to have Mesut Ozil in good form.