World Cup Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list.

  Barry Ferguson

  Names, People, World

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• Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Believe, Iran, Octopus

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• Our performance during this World Cup has not been enough to progress further and both myself and all the players regret that and are hurt more than people realise.

  David Beckham

  Hurt, Regret, Player

  "Terry in line as Beckham hands in his armband" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2006.

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• I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

  Diego Maradona

  World, Cups, Advantage

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• We have a great sense of togetherness. It is our team spirit that has taken us to this World Cup.

  Robbie Keane

  Teamwork, Taken, World

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• It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

  Simon Kuper

  Soccer, Sports, Country

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• The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It's an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you'll be saying, 'Wow, it's over already?' You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.

  Cobi Jones

  Soccer, Thinking, Games

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• A World Cup without Zlatan is not worth watching.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  World, Cups

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• The World Cup is a truly international event.

  John Motson

  Events, World, Cups

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• It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Football, Games, Fans

  "Usmanov's responses to Guardian questions". Interview With Ian Cobain, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• Neither Romelu nor myself were happy with the game he had and his reaction. He has apologised and for me that is the end of the story. I don't look back -- I look at the future. That is what interests me. Romelu trained well yesterday and looked happy. Every player wants to show himself in a World Cup but it is not going to change your life.

  Marc Wilmots

  Player, Games, Yesterday

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• The biggest thing right now is to know that I just didn't give up. It would have been the easiest thing for me to just go ahead and pull out of the tournament with what has been going on over the last week - just to be up there with my mum and support her. But I really wanted to come down here and play with Adam (Scott) and really try to win the World Cup and we achieved that which was great.

  Jason Day

  Giving Up, Winning, Play

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• I'm half-Italian and my name is Portuguese. Michael Young is half-Mexican. There are players from the United States that have heritage elsewhere and it's a great thing to have a world cup to celebrate the whole world. It shows the world that baseball is important and how great the game is.

  Mark Teixeira

  Baseball, Italian, Player

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• It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Lying, Opportunity, Years

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• I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

  Cobi Jones

  Years, Cities, Two

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• I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Guy, Finals, World

  "Jonny Wilkinson: not quite Mr Perfect" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.

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• I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Records, World, Proud

  Jonny Wilkinson (2011). “Jonny: My Autobiography”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far.

  Jacques Kallis

  Dream, Sri Lanka, Bridges

  "Jacques Kallis adds one-day and T20 to Test cricket retirement". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2014.

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• An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Eye, Dark

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• You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

  Peter Shilton

  Motivational, Soccer, Believe

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• Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.

  Michel Patini

  Regret, Team, Winning

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• The one who’s really, really impressed me is Benedikt Höwedes because he’s playing out of position. He’s never played at left back before in his life but he’s having a first-rate World Cup. So, the most astonishing player for me is Höwedes.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Player, Cups, Firsts

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• I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best

  Neymar

  Football, Winning, Wish

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