Football Fever Quotes

Wherever I go, I see kids playing football. Even if there is no grass and it's just sweaters for goals, you see how people love football.

Having played in U.S.A. in 1994, in France in 1998, as well as the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan - the first on the Asian continent - I have witnessed the excitement and passion unleashed in those different parts of the world.

I'd always thought Australia was a rugby country, but football is really developing here, and Juve are extremely popular.

I'm addicted to football. When I get outside, I just want to stay on the training pitch.

Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.

Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup.

I think it's fantastic to be here in England. They live football: football is living, and living is football.

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

The World Cup is a unique event. When you see a blue shirt in a bar or in a pub, you immediately think of Italy. Scoring for your nation was a wonderful experience.

I know how much football means in England. They love it. That's why it's great to be here.

Watching all the football over the weekend - and having to wait until Monday night to play - gets you ready, gets you firing.

Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old age.

Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.

It's true that the atmosphere here is quite different from the one in France. People live and breathe football here, and that's what I like. Every footballer wants to play in the Premier League.

We want to enjoy our families and the hype leading up to the game.

The atmosphere of football in England is intense. There's so much passion.

Football is strange, especially after a World Cup.

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

Everyone just plays football, don't they? It is just part of life in England. Once I started I just totally got the bug and never lost it.

Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!

Look, in my life, I played one World Cup: the greatest thing. I used to wait in anticipation for the squad announcement. I didn't go to Argentina 78 having played throughout qualification. Now, that hurt.

I was obsessed with football when I was growing up.

I love football, but I'm sick of the World Cup. I don't even care about England.

Canada's known as a hockey country and now we've proven that we can also play football as well.

Bondy is a city that breathes football.