National team Quotes · Page 7

Being called up to the national team is about going with them, playing the best you possibly can, and trying to win.…

— Gerard Pique

Yugoslavia is a little country, and everybody likes basketball. If I don't play for my national team, everybody be sad.

— Vlade Divac

I will keep playing for the national team until I feel I can't offer them anything.

— Kolo Toure

'A' tours can be considered as a stepping stone to getting into the national team, so they are really important.

— Shreyas Iyer

I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird.

— Tiffeny Milbrett

Any player playing at a high level is available for consideration to the women's national team.

— Jill Ellis

I don't want to get to a point where I consider the national team a club team.

— Ali Krieger

A national team is a reflection of its country's football, and both Brazil and Argentina have earned respect for what they've achieved.

— Dani Alves

Everything I experienced in the national team was amazing. I was there for 14 years and won several titles: the Copa America,…

— Roberto Carlos

Buffon is my idol. My dream is to become a regular in the senior national team and follow in his footsteps. Everyone…

— Gianluigi Donnarumma

I think players of the national team are not entitled to make an opinion about who is making the team and who…

— Mario Kempes

I had role models in my community, guys that were older than me and played at university or on the national team.…

— Steve Nash

As a young boy I dreamed of playing in the national team and representing my country with pride. I'm proud to have…

— Stephan Lichtsteiner

When I was 18, I never expected to be what I was - you hope to make your debut, to play for…

— Edwin van der Sar

I went to Fulham for the project they explained to me - but it didn't really work out. I might have been…

— Edwin van der Sar

While the World Cup is great every four years, I think people struggle to get themselves excited about qualifiers against the smaller…

— Michael Owen

I try to show myself at Liverpool, and when I come to the national team, I try to show myself in training…

— Emre Can

It's always good playing with the best and the best players, so playing in Portugal with the national team, it's very important…

— Joao Felix

Lee Chung-yong has been playing well and trying hard at Bolton and has grown in confidence. His improvement is valuable for the…

— Park Ji-sung

Playing with the national team is about pride. It's not about anything else.

— Juancho Hernangomez

For me, it's important to perform in my club and with the national team as well.

— Mario Gotze

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

I play with players in the Brazilian national team who are similar to those at Chelsea - Kaka, Neymar.

— Oscar

The World Cup was the biggest thing ever for the national team, but the Champions League is the biggest thing for clubs.

— David Villa

I always look forward to playing for my national team, especially at a major tournament.

— Luka Modric

If you don't concentrate during a national team match you can just as easily get injured, so I want to make sure…

— Shinji Kagawa

This Mayagüez gold, my third consecutive with the national team, has a strawberry flavor.

— Milagros Cabral

If it's good for me to go to the national team and play there - not just go there to give experience…

— Kaka

To play for the England national team, you have to be very good, and to play at Liverpool, you have to be…

— Cafu

Playing for the national team, you are aware that a whole country wants you to succeed, but you mustn't get side-tracked.

— David Alaba

It's more difficult to achieve something with the national team because players from several clubs get together and less frequently.

— Manuel Neuer

Since June of 1981, between school and the national team, I haven't had much time to spend with myself or my family.

— Karch Kiraly

I definitely see this team, the Canadian national team, definitely fighting for a spot in the 2022 World Cup.

— Alphonso Davies

When you come in with the national team, there's an adjustment period. Sometimes you don't have time to adjust.

— Clint Dempsey

Buffon is special. I've got to know a splendid person in the national team. He really helps me a lot.

— Gianluigi Donnarumma

I know that I owe a lot to the national team, for everything they've done for me, everything my team-mates do for…

— Vinicius Junior

Players must understand that if they go after more lucrative contracts, then they forfeit their chances of playing in the national team.

— Clarence Seedorf

I love playing with the national team. I love being here as much as I can.

— Christian Pulisic

I hope things go phenomenally well for Spain and for Luis Enrique. I'm a fervent supporter of the national team.

— Julen Lopetegui

When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

— Ronaldinho