World Cup Quotes
180 World Cup quotes by 117 unique authors
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You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the…
— Haile Gebrselassie
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I think everyone around the world knows the tools are there in England's armoury to do well in a World Cup. The challenge is to…
— Steven Gerrard
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I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.
— Alan Hansen
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In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
— Alan Hansen
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The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!
— Alan Hansen
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The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
— Gary Lineker
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it…
— Gary Lineker
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I really got into the cricket and staying up late watching the World Cup.
— Jeremy London
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That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to…
— Angela Merkel
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The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions…
— Lionel Messi
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You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.
— Lionel Messi
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Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel…
— Apolo Ohno
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There's nothing quite like a World Cup.
— Michael Owen
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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.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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…
— Andy Pick
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My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.
— Hope Solo
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My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so…
— Hope Solo
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
— Sachin Tendulkar
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Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
— Daley Thompson
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It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance…
— Prince William
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Now, you'll have to answer my questions." "Oh, very well," Set said. "I like Brazil for the World Cup. I'd advise investing in platinum and…
— Rick Riordan
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It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that…
— Jonah Lomu
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The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.
— Sepp Blatter
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The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football…
— Sepp Blatter
Who Wrote These World Cup Quotes
117 authors contributed a total of 180 World Cup Quotes, led by these top contributors: