World Cup Trophy Quotes

I'm proud to have played 14 matches at the World Cup with the number ten shirt and to have scored eight goals.

This whole quest to win the 2019 World Cup, that was my job when I was director of England cricket.

Would I have preferred not to play in a home World Cup for Brazil, a privilege that most people in this world can only dream of? Not a chance.

I never think I want to go to another World Cup just to be in the record books again and play in six tournaments or four World Cups. If I am lucky enough to go, I want to go there to fight for my place and win something in an England shirt.

I believe an African team will one day win the World Cup, and it could even be in Brazil.

It's an amazing opportunity to be around at the right time and play in a home World Cup.

You meet somebody on a bus or something, and they say, 'Thank you for the World Cup; it was so good to see,' and stuff like this - it's funny.

Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.

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.

Messi is always compared to Maradona, but he needs to win the World Cup because if you don't win the World Cup, you can't be up there with the very best.

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

It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

The shot of Kapil Dev kissing the World Cup and hordes of Indian fans all over at Lord's is etched in my memory. Every Indian is proud of that victory, and every Indian player who has played the World Cup after that '83 win wants to bring the Cup home.

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.

I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.

The first World Cup I followed was Sweden 1958. I watched the games on TV. Brazil won that World Cup by defeating Sweden 5-2 in the Final and Pele scored twice.

I am Brazilian, and that is not going to change, but I want to win the World Cup with Spain.

The most important thing is qualifying for the World Cup.

I'd love to feature for the Barbarians. I'd love to win a Champions Cup, and I'd love to get to another World Cup and make a fist of it: get to a World Cup final at least and see what could have been, particularly after 2011 when Wales reached the semi-finals.

You know, when you are the Italian national team, all the time you need to win because for our history, it is important for us to try to win the World Cup.

It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun.

It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.

It would be a dream to go to my first World Cup.

It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup Finals with their country.