For every player it's nice to go to the World Cup and it's very important to do that in your career.

In order to make history, you have to win the World Cup. It's not good enough just to reach a final.

I would never dream of telling them how to play but it would be amazing if England won the World Cup.

For me, I want to win the World Cup. If that's not the goal then I don't think you should be playing.

In a year without the World Cup, the national leagues and the Champions League have much more weight.

The World Cup ball is very fast, and you need to think very quickly, when to punch and when to catch.

We hope girls are inspired to start playing at a younger age and try to get to a World Cup themselves.

You want the world-class players playing at the World Cup, and you want them to do themselves justice.

I don't score many with my head but, as it happened, that's how I netted my first-ever World Cup goal.

I have captained India in two World Cup finals. I definitely want to win the World Cup before I retire.

On a personal note, reaching the World Cup would be something that no one could ever take away from me.

Something you look at when you go into a World Cup is your depth and your players that change the game.

Winning the Europa League with Atletico Madrid and then reaching a semi-final of the World Cup is great.

The dream of every footballer and why we train and work is to reach the top, and a World Cup is the top.

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

The World Cup is definitely a good place to show that when you're at Tottenham, you can be a top player.

Messi is a god, as a person and even more as a player. I hope that he wins the World Cup with Argentina.

This is one thing every coach can take from Menotti. If you win the World Cup, no one can criticize you.

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!

It might sound very cocky or naive of me, or self-centered, but I want to win a World Cup for my country.

My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

I've kept all of my shirts that wore in the World Cup games, and I'll be giving them to my family to keep.

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

Playing at the Women's World Cup is my long-term goal and, hopefully, I can contribute to winning a medal.

Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.

My best World Cup memory as a fan? The Michael Owen goal against Argentina at the 1998 World Cup in France.

I think whoever wins the World Cup deserves the right to be named the number one-one day team in the world.

We all want to win the World Cup, achieve great things, not only personally but also as a team for the U.S.

It's the World Cup, and everyone wants to be there. No one will be burnt out; everyone will be raring to go.

It's something we've all been waiting to see happen to Icelandic football - to actually go to the World Cup.

To score a goal in front of my family and so many U.S. fans in the World Cup was just absolutely incredible.

World Cup is very special because it happens once in four years, so for every individual, it's very special.

Me and a lot of my team-mates still think and speak about the World Cup in 1994, when Sweden finished third.

Whether you're male or female, going to a World Cup is the biggest thing that will ever happen in your life.

When we won the 2009 World Cup in Australia, we flew economy, shared hotel rooms and had a 10:45 P.M. curfew.

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

Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.

I am not thinking about World Cup and all those things. You can't play freely if you start thinking like that.

In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.

When you win the World Cup, you start to become a legend - for the people around the world, you are different.

I'm proud to have played 14 matches at the World Cup with the number ten shirt and to have scored eight goals.

It's very difficult to reach World Cup and Champions League finals and I want to experience those things again.

I was 22, and getting into a World Cup squad is what you dream about as a kid, so finishing third was fantastic.

In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.

Every player dreams of winning the World Cup, and there are very few who are fortunate enough to actually do it.

The Brazilian press doesn't allow us to forget the World Cup in 1950, when we lost the final in a full Maracana.

We're trying to win a World Cup for our country, and I think everyone who supports football can get behind that.

For any cricketer, the ultimate dream is to be a World Cup champion. My dream is to win the World Cup for India.

When you have someone who's been there and done it at the highest level, at a World Cup, you have to respect him.

There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup.

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