Carlos Vela Quotes

When you're 38 years old and you've already been in three World Cups... one thing I've learned, especially when you play for your country, is, 'I'm there for my country.'

I never played in a World Cup. I wasn't good enough.

It's not nice, not playing, but you have to try and be ready and try to help the team in different ways.

The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.

Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

Keep doing what you have to do to help the team out.

I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

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.

We just had a bunch of guys who liked each other, and we worked well together and sacrificed to win ball games. It was a real team effort.

I never played in a European Championship. I wasn't good enough.

Getting to the World Cup is a big dream for me.

When it's time to play, I'm going to come play. I'm going to play the right way. I'm going to try to help my team in all directions, blocking and catching. If I don't have the ball in my hand, I'm going to protect, block down the field. I'm going to do whatever it takes to win.

I promised my mother that I'd be a famous footballer one day after seeing players such as Croatia's Davor Suker and Serbia's Predrag Mijatovic shine in France.

I think I did that in my career, in Boston and Miami, being ready to play and at the same time when your number is not called, be ready to support your teammates, go out and be productive while not playing.

The Premier League and the World Cup are equally important to me.

It's hard going out there and not doing what I can to help this team win.

We're trying to win a World Cup for our country, and I think everyone who supports football can get behind that.

You always dream to have a great World Cup.

As long as I'm helping the team, I just want to play football.

My dream was to become a footballer. I started loving football so much that I followed my dad wherever he went and spent all my time playing football with friends out in the fields. But my parents also taught me the important values and principles in life of respect and to raise me in that way.