Final Match Quotes

The title I most want is the 2014 World Cup.

I remember, when I was at Sunderland, we made the FA Cup final and played in front of 20,000 at Derby.

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!

Teams in the past have been slow starters yet gone on to win the World Cup.

The first time I retired, only Sir Alex Ferguson and I knew that the last league game of the 2010-11 season against Blackpool was to be my final game at Old Trafford. I was a little bit sad, but I am not one for tears. The end of a career comes to us all, and there is not a lot you can do about that.

If I lose to DeLuca I will announce my retirement in the ring after.

To win the FA Cup - scoring the winner in the 2014 FA Cup was very nice.

It's always good to reach a final and fight for titles.

The big teams are about the Champions League.

I want to play in a cup final.

You cannot expect teams to be up for a final every Saturday, but you have to in the Six Nations, and that is the difficulty we have.

This will be my first Grand Slam final without Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic on the other side of the net, but I don't think being the more experienced player will make much difference to my approach.

I would love to win the Champions League.

Starting in a World Cup is always complicated, hard, and important. When you start well... The rest of the competitors are watching. I think it's the most important match in a World Cup, along with the final.

At the World Cup, most teams changed their style when they played us and maybe were more defensive. In the final, we didn't know if Holland were going to do the same, but the important thing was we beat them in the end.

I would love to do well one last time in Melbourne and my dream would be to win Wimbledon and play in the London Olympics.

My last game, scoring a goal, was incredible.

There comes a time in any proud sportsman's career when you have to make the difficult decision to stop.

I don't ever want to be carried off the court.

A lot of clubs want to win the Champions League.

It's terrible to consider never playing another Test again but what's more terrifying is the thought of never playing again at all.

It sounds strange to be world champion at the Crucible.

I will not play a farewell game with the national team. I would like to thank the federation for expressing an interest. But I prefer to leave football with an official match because I am not a fan of farewell games.

Not many German keepers can say they've played in a Champions League final.

It is a cup final and the one who wins it goes through