World Cup Quotes - Page 5

• Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz.

  Thierry Henry

  Baseball, Football, Team

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• At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  World, Levels, Cups

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• Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.

  Nelson Mandela

  Soccer, Sports, Country

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• Success is not winning the World Cup. It may be a goal in your mind but success is having a team that is improving all the time.

  Berti Vogts

  Team, Winning, Goal

  Source: www.china.org.cn

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• To be a father is not simply to bring a child into this world. It is to take care of that child and to give him direction and guidance. It's my mother who always did this for me. I'm surprised that today, because of the World Cup and because the cameras are on my father, that he puts on that jersey and speaks of his son. It's not going to change things because of a World Cup.

  Lilian Thuram

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future.

  Berti Vogts

  Team, Mean, Successful

  Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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• A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.

  Mike Tindall

  Home, Player, Risk

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

  David Attenborough

  Winning, Australia, Suffering

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• At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

  Colin Angle

  Distance, Team, Risk

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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• I'm not trying to race the whole men's tour; I just want to race one time. If you know me, which most people on the World Cup do, they know that this is a legitimate goal of mine and not a publicity stunt.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Men, Race, People

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• If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.

  Herbert Hainer

  Team, Adidas, Roles

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I lost my virginity under a bridge. I was having sex with this poor girl and I was trying my best, but I was like Scotland at a World Cup - just pleased to be there.

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Girl, Sex

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• Victoria Beckham looks like she has a dump once every four years. That's probably how David knows that there's a World Cup coming up.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  Vicente del Bosque

  Feel Good, Political, May

  "Vicente del Bosque: Putting regional tensions aside has united Spain" by Jimmy Burns, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2012.

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• When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Trying, World, Cups

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• We shall wonder if one day our game is played on another planet? Why not? Then we will have not only a World Cup we will have inter-planetary competitions.

  Sepp Blatter

  Games, Competition, One Day

  "Sepp Blatter suggests that football could be played on other planets" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2014.

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• In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.

  Shakira

  Germany, World, Cups

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• I was an ambassador for Betway during the Rugby World Cup and at the moment I'm working as an ambassador for Artemis Investment Management. I also organised the first Rugby Aid in 2015. We had celebrities playing rugby against former England team players and raised a ton of money for Rugby For Heroes [a charity for former servicemen and women]. Only one celeb got crunched quite badly - Jaime Laing from Made in Chelsea ended up with cracked ribs.

  Mike Tindall

  Team, Hero, Player

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Before dying, my last wish will be to see MS Dhoni's World Cup
  Winning Six.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Winning, Ms Dhoni, Wish

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• Yes, there are dangerous batsmen like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina. Yes, the bowling is striking form just at the right time but for me MS Dhoni's captaincy is India's biggest strength in this World Cup.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Dhoni, India, World

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• Perhaps we could revisit the issue of World Cup Host selection for 2018/2022 as some countries feel, and we did say, they are more suitable. Russia was the only high risk location for 2018 and racial chanting is rife there but a Mr. R. Abramovich paid a significant fee to fund the voting proceedings and, not to be discriminatory, we would have to see the same thing from any England/Spain representatives wishing to have another vote.

  Sepp Blatter

  Country, Issues, Russia

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• I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him 4-2.

  Eric Bristow

  Winning, Australia, Legs

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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

  Jacob Zuma

  Football, Crazy, Successful

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• We're going to do it. We're going to get to the World Cup.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, World, Cups

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• I think it's kind of awkward when everyone knows you're gay but you don't say it. I had been thinking about coming out for almost a year before I did. I thought about it seriously on the plane ride home from the World Cup, while I was casually talking to my friend Lori Lindsey. She said, "Dude, you should just come out." She was right. Everyone in my life already knew. If you want to stand up and fight for equal rights but then won't even stand up for yourself and say "I'm gay" - that just started to feel weird.

  Megan Rapinoe

  Home, Fighting, Gay

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