World Cup Quotes - Page 9

• We're not going to walk into the World Cup thinking, 'Ah, you know, we beat Norway 5-0 and we beat Japan so now we're great and we're untouchable'. It's a reality check for a few guys and that's a good thing at this time so it doesn't happen on June 12 (when the U.S. team opens World Cup play against the Czech Republic).

  Kasey Keller

  Team, Reality, Thinking

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• I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his death, it becomes jingoism. People are drinking, dancing in the street, chanting USA like they’re at the World Cup, like they won it… It’s sick that we turned it into a sporting event.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Country, Drinking, Jumping

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• The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.

  Lionel Messi

  Opportunity, Champions League, Goal

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• That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.

  Angela Merkel

  Summer, Team, Thinking

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

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• I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, Trying, Experts

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

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• Everyone knows that England are a far better team than their World Cup performance suggests. It's vital that we play with confidence and take the strength and competition of the engage Super League in to the Four Nations.

  Paul Sculthorpe

  Team, Rugby League, Play

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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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• The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

  Gary Lineker

  Years, World, Four

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• 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!

  Alan Hansen

  Stars, Winning, Boys

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• In fact, if you were interested in a global platform there are only three sporting events: probably the most powerful - or equally powerful [to F1] - are the World Cup and the Olympics, and then Formula One. And there it gets interesting.

  Martin Sorrell

  Powerful, Interesting, Events

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.

  Rafael Nadal

  Sports, Football, Uncles

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• Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.

  Apolo Ohno

  Morning, New York, Believe

  "Apolo Anton Ohno closes door on 2014 comeback". Interview with Kelly Whiteside, www.usatoday.com. April 24, 2013.

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• My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

  Hope Solo

  Years, World, Four

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• When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that Dhoni hit in the 2011 World Cup final.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Epic, Dhoni, Finals

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• I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It's important in my football too. When everything is good, I don't think you grow up fantastically, I think maybe you need a few problems to grow up. It is good if people in England have started to admire me. I think I have changed a little since the World Cup. I am stronger with my mentality and with my game as well.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, Growing Up

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• I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Soccer, Differences

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• Now, you'll have to answer my questions." "Oh, very well," Set said. "I like Brazil for the World Cup. I'd advise investing in platinum and small-cap funds. And your lucky numbers this week are 2, 13--" "Not those questions!" Menshikov snapped.

  Rick Riordan

  Numbers, Lucky, Investing

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• It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.

  Prince William

  Team, Thinking, Balance

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• Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.

  David Campese

  Numbers, Years, Two

  "Campese forced to utter a heresy" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2001.

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• I wouldn't be here if I didn't believe I was good enough to be here and hopefully I can perform well for my club and try and get to the World Cup.

  Peter Crouch

  Believe, Trying, Clubs

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• My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.

  Hope Solo

  Winning, Knowing, Goal

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• When the Olympics and World Cups come around, that's when you see the real outpouring of support that there really is for female football.

  Hope Solo

  Football, Real, Support

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• Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

  Daley Thompson

  Games, Community, World

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