World Cup Quotes

• Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

  Serge Schmemann

  Soccer, Sports, Passion

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• The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Player, Important

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• Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Finals, World, Want

  "Gerrard Sounds Clarion Call". www.theguardian.com. October 05, 2005.

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• You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, World, Cups

  "Messi reveals close ties with Maradona". Interview, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2010.

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• The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

  Pele

  Soccer, Father, Party

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

  Elton John

  Football, Sick, World

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• Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.

  Graham Taylor

  World, Cups, England

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• The World Cup was a huge frustration because I had prepared really hard for it. But in the World Cup there is no formula, no recipe for success.

  Kaka

  Frustration, World, Recipes

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• You know as a player that you won’t have many opportunities to play in World Cups - so you have to take them when you can.

  Lionel Messi

  Opportunity, Player, World

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• The adidas +Challenge is a really cool opportunity for kids here in Los Angeles and across the country to get excited for the FIFA World Cup this summer. As a big fan of soccer, Im looking forward to seeing the 32 youth teams compete for the title of Team USA and represent our country at the global finals in Berlin.

  Luke Wilson

  Summer, Soccer, Country

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• This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

  John Helm

  Football, Cups, Firsts

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• There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

  Robbie Savage

  Soccer, Football, Moon

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• I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.

  Ronaldo

  Soccer, Sex, Years

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• If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

  Michel Patini

  Years, Two, Fifa

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• One thing is for sure, a World Cup without me is nothing to watch so it is not worthwhile to wait for the World Cup.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Waiting, Cups, Watches

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• I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey... no I mean Tunisia.

  David Seaman

  Mean, Turkeys, Games

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• That goal [in the 1998 World Cup] changed me-not as a person, but as a player. People have looked at me differently ever since. It gave me confidence and now I feel I can achieve anything.

  David Beckham

  Player, People, Goal

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• I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.

  Jermain Defoe

  World, Want, Buzz

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• Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

  Bobby Charlton

  Football, Believe, World

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• In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

  Alan Hansen

  Winning, Defense, Brazil

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• I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

  Louis van Gaal

  Team, Winning, World

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• I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.

  Michael Phelps

  World, Want, Cups

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• Nobody likes being criticised, particularly by players who will be in Disneyland this summer on their holidays rather than the World Cup in Japan

  Phil Thompson

  Summer, Holiday, Player

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• I'm not prepared to make any comments on the World Cup in Qatar in 1922.

  Roy Hodgson

  Qatar, World, Cups

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• 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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