We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation.

Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

Winning the World Cup is something that will always be inside your mind and inside your body.

Brazil is well served for goalkeepers, many who have not been to the World Cup are very good.

I've got to do everything extra to put myself in the best shape to get in the World Cup squad.

It is a great opportunity and a great challenge to be a part of Indian team for the World Cup.

I still have ambition to captain England into the 2011 World Cup. I'm very keen to do that job.

To go to a World Cup is a dream come true, and I can claim to have experienced that four times.

It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

Honestly, during the 2018 World Cup itself, I was saying T20 World Cup was going to be my last.

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

I got to be around an England team at a World Cup in Brazil, and that was an amazing experience.

To win the World Cup in our colours was beyond my dreams and something I will never, ever forget.

It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup Finals with their country.

I had to deal with casual sexism while working as a pundit for ITV during the World Cup in Russia.

I always say I'll rest when I die - that's my motto. I just hope I don't die before the World Cup!

The World Cup is a very big event. Every player dreams of playing in one, and it was my dream, too.

Just emotionally, as amazing as it is to win the World Cup, it's emotionally draining in many ways.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Maybe apart from the World Cup, the Champions League is one of the most important trophies in the world of football.

Scoring a goal in a World Cup was my dream as a little girl. I didn't really dream of being in 'Maxim' when I was 5.

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

If I hadn't come East as a kid, I might still be a World Cup racer today, but I wouldn't be the same World Cup racer.

Before normal games I was always relaxed. But at the World Cup for Italy my heartbeat was always going a lot quicker.

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

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.

Obviously, I want to do well in the Champions Trophy, which is like a mini World Cup with all top teams participating.

If you qualify for a World Cup and expect to get an easy group, you are in the wrong sport. It doesn't work like that.

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