Behind Quote by Gareth Thomas

In '98, we were not the best team. But after that, we had the anger to prove to the whole world we were the…

— Marcel Desailly

We won the 1998 World Cup on home soil because we were able to bring out the positive from that pressure.

— Marcel Desailly

I remember we had a terrible start to the 2002 World Cup, losing to Senegal when we were the reigning world and European champions.

— Marcel Desailly

And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.

— Imran Khan

We were able to dominate the world in the '90s because the World Cup victory completely transformed us and changed our mindset.

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

Back in 2005, we lost in the semi-final of the World Cup and that was a great learning curve for the team. It gave…

— Isa Guha

We were thrilled to reach France in 1998 but our failure to make the finals in the U.S.A. in 1994 and South Korea and…

— Ali Daei

When I think back to the 2006 World Cup on home soil, we came close but nobody really expected us to get very far.…

— Philipp Lahm

The pressures of playing in the World Cup are different, but it was because we coped with them in 1992 under Imran Khan's guidance…

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

In 2002 we went into the first World Cup in Asia as reigning champions and we had also added the European crown in 2000,…

— Marcel Desailly

Four years ago maybe we thought we were inferior to Brazil, subconsciously we didn't see ourselves beating them. Now we believe in ourselves, we…

— Rio Ferdinand

When I was growing up, we didn't qualify for the 1982 and 1986 World Cup and the 1984 Euros. And then suddenly we won…

— Marco van Basten