National Team Quotes - Page 2

• "Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup.

  Tom Cole

  Team, Amazon, Three

  "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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• Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him.

  Carlos Queiroz

  Running, Team, Cristiano Ronaldo

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• The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players.

  Roger Milla

  Team, Player, Egypt

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• I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.

  Apolo Ohno

  Football, Dad, Team

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• When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

  Diego Maradona

  Team, Skins, Shirts

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• The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

  Gary Lineker

  Team, Kissing, Player

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• When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

  Ronaldinho

  Senior, Team, Calling

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• The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can.

  Drew Carey

  Soccer, Hate, Team

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• That's a funny thing, because it's 3 rivals who get a long great on the club that are friends [Neimar, Lionel Messi and Louise Alberto Suarez]. And it's something kinda impossible to imagine that it would happen. But it did and things have been working for us. Of course we mess with each other when someone goes to the national team, but we get a long great.

  Neymar

  Team, Funny Things, Long

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• I want to help the Brazilian National Team the best way possible, whether is with goals, assists or even a slide tackle, whatever.

  Neymar

  Team, Goal, Want

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• If the Russian government continues to pump money into it and makes their national teams train in Sochi and just sort of prop it up as a point of pride, then perhaps. But I don't think anybody living there was begging for multiple 40,000-seat venues to be plopped down in the city.

  Gary Hustwit

  Team, Pride, Thinking

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Individually, I always want to give the most. I want to help the Brazilian National Team the best way possible, whether is with goals, assists or even a slide tackle, whatever. All that matters is to help the team.

  Neymar

  Team, Giving, Goal

  Source: soccerlens.com

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• I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

  Thierry Henry

  Football, Team, Believe

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• It was a dream start, a perfect start for us. We had to start qualification away from home in Portugal, the group favourites - and I still think they are the group favourites. It was a historic result to win against a big team in Europe, so I am very happy for my country and for my people. They were all looking to the national team. This victory is for them and we will try to do the best that we can until the end of qualification.

  Lorik Cana

  Soccer, Country, Football

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• I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi.

  Kobe Bryant

  Team, Athlete, Numbers

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• In 10 years' time I still want to be at Arsenal, winning trophies for my club and for the national team as well. I've been there since I was nine or 10. It feels like I've always been there, the club's been great to me and I feel I owe them that to be there and to stay around.

  Jack Wilshere

  Team, Winning, Years

  "Jack Wilshere interview: Paolo Di Canio was my boyhood hero... but I'll show no mercy to Hammers today". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. January 14, 2011.

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• When I first met him [James Galanis], he just said, "Look, if you want to be a professional soccer player, if you want to make the national team, you have to do everything possible to work hard. You’ve got to put it number one."

  Carli Lloyd

  Soccer, Team, Hard Work

  "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

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• This Mayagüez gold, my third consecutive with the national team, has a strawberry flavor.

  Milagros Cabral

  Team, Gold, Flavor

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• Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer.

  James Harden

  Basketball, Summer, Country

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• Ive known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

  Tiffeny Milbrett

  Team, Bird, Different

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• I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team.

  Just Fontaine

  Team, Years, Firsts

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• What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams.

  Sepp Blatter

  Team, Clubs, Aspiration

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

  Diego Maradona

  Team, Giving, Coaches

  "Diego Maradona wants to return as Argentina coach". www.mirror.co.uk. September 26, 2010.

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• The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that.

  Michel Patini

  Country, Team, Years

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• I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team. I've had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don't think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I've had during those eight years. When you've coached at that level, you know, you've coached those players, it's pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.

  Geno Auriemma

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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