World Cup Quotes - Page 3

• The crowd is wonderful. There is always a superb atmosphere in the finish area. It's good for the World Cup. I missed it a lot when I had to rest and it's so nice to be back here.

  Hermann Maier

  Nice, Atmosphere, World

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• I was competing in an IPC World Cup race, but the finish area was short and I came across the line with my head down and went straight through the fence. It was only because the Italian team doctor leapt out to grab me that I didn't smash through the café window.

  Heather Mills

  Team, Italian, Doctors

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• That's the dream. Being on the U.S. National team and winning the World Cup. I'll take the win anyway I can get it.

  Freddy Adu

  Dream, Team, Winning

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• You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.

  Phil Kearns

  World, Lasts, Cups

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• England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'

  Joey Barton

  Football, Stupid, Book

  "Barton: fans are vicious, misled and shocking" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2007.

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• A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

  Andy Pick

  Team, Tree, One Day

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• As for the (Ballon d'Or) criteria, I'm not really sure how it works. Sometimes it's a World Cup year, sometimes it isn't. Let them vote. For me, there is no doubt as to who is the best, year after year.

  David Villa

  Years, Doubt, Best Year

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• Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.

  Vinnie Jones

  Football, Memories, School

  "Vinnie Jones: 'It took me 40 years to see a psychologist'"y Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.

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• Head coach of the England team demands management skills that Brian does not have. We had a head coach who wanted one thing, other coaches who wanted other things. The players hadn't a clue what was going on. Somehow we'd managed to turn our World Cup campaign into a Monty Python sketch - called The Life of Brian.

  Lawrence Dallaglio

  Team, Player, Python

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• When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

  Hermann Maier

  Stars, Children, Team

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• My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.

  Just Fontaine

  Goal, Cups, Finals

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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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• I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

  Pope Francis

  Wish, World, Cups

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 12, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If Belgium win the World Cup, I will cut my hair.

  Marouane Fellaini

  Cutting, Winning, Hair

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• We wanted to give back to the fans what they've given us, and that is unbelievable support thoughout the World Cup

  Carla Overbeck

  Giving, Support, Fans

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• After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

  Art Garfunkel

  Soccer, Cheer, Years

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• The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

  Alan Hansen

  Team, Needs, World

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• Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

  Robbie Keane

  Successful, Thinking, Would Be

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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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• I think Neuer changed the game of goalkeeping in the World Cup.

  Oliver Kahn

  Thinking, Games, World

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