World Cup Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

  George Gregan

  Athlete, Thinking, Player

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• The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

  Martin Jacques

  Political, Events, World

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• The World Cup gave me a lot of confidence - just to know that I can play at the highest level and not only complete but play well.

  Lauren Holiday

  Play, World, Levels

  "A conversation with U.S. Olympian Lauren Cheney". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

  Graham Taylor

  World, Cups, Blame

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• Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.

  Lata Mangeshkar

  Order, Bats, World

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• I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done.

  Nicklas Bendtner

  Player, Thinking, Talking

  "Successfully begging two fellow customers to sub him" by Barry Glendenning, www.theguardian.com. September 07, 2016.

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• The Indian team does not need any best wishes - they are going to win anyway. I have been close to Sourav Ganguly, and I hope he does well in the World Cup.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Team, Winning, Best Wishes

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• They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that... really!

  Sepp Blatter

  Team, World, Cups

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• If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer.

  Hermann Maier

  Winning, Thinking, Race

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• I was a 21-year-old kid back then and I had my whole career in front of me. We were so close to reaching the World Cup and then we all woke up the next morning to realize our dreams had been dashed.

  Russell Latapy

  Dream, Morning, Kids

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• The only subject fewer authentic Americans cared about than the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo was World Cup Soccer. America is an epic global battle with ruthless savages who seek our destruction, and liberals are feeling sorry for the terrorists.

  Ann Coulter

  Soccer, Sorry, Epic

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• Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.

  Pele

  Games, Play, Goal

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• Messi on the World Cup 2014? He showed why he is the best player in the world. It was a pleasure to see him play.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Player, Messi, World

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• If you spend 10,000 hours on the bunny slope, you're never going to win the World Cup. You've got to challenge yourself, ski the double blacks, go out when it's blowin' and snowin' as well as when it's sunny and smooth.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Winning, Challenges, World

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• Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Song, Badass, Self

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• Congratulations to the Italian people for winning the World Cup. ... They won after France's best player got ejected for head butting. That's the closest anyone in a French uniform has come to combat in 60 years.

  Jay Leno

  Congratulations, Italian, Winning

  "The Tonight Show", July 11, 2006.

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• As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.

  Arsene Wenger

  Sorry, Winning, Player

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• In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.

  Gianluigi Buffon

  Years, Finals, World

  TV programme "Football Italia", July 29, 2007.

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• If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup.

  Andy Gray

  Winning, World, Wenger

  "There's too much football on TV, says Andy Gray!" by Alan Fraser, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

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• Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Soccer, Ebola, Years

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• Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, 'It wasn't Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no.' (Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.)

  Jimmy Fallon

  Soccer, Eye, Russia

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• He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

  Gary Lineker

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  " My granny could have coached Brazil, says Lineker" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2006.

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• The combination of an out-of-control tabloid press and a readership that thrills to the destruction of the England head coach is something no other country can offer. Scolari was driven out; Steve McClaren's personal life made the front pages. Neither of them even held the job. Then there was the fake-sheikhing of Sven-Göran Eriksson. That a newspaper should so brilliantly and deliberately destabilise the national head coach in a World Cup year is something no other sporting nation would consider.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

  Claudio Reyna

  Sports, Country, World

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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