World Cup Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about World Cup
World Cup Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational World Cup quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at this level. There are a lot of great female jockeys.
— Chantal Sutherland
Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy.
— Lionel Messi
I want to reduce my risks as much as possible and hopefully be able to go to the World Cup fit, ready and healthy.
— Abby Wambach
This is my first FIFA Women's World Cup . For me, to see how I have reacted to this tournament ... I'm totally in.
— Alexi Lalas
For him who fain would teach the world The world holds hate in fee- For Socrates, the hemlock cup; For Christ, Gethsemane.
— Don Marquis
I think my form dipped after the Six Nations in 2007, from the World Cup onwards.
— Brian O'Driscoll
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.
— Tim Howard
You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.
— Peter Shilton
I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.
— Adele
Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.
— Jonny Wilkinson
Older sisters are much alike the world over: half a cup of love and half one of contempt.
— Alan Bradley
Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.
— Bobby Charlton
Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.
— Tina Fey
Rob Green needed to get the long barrier out, didn't he?
— James Anderson
No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
— Kapil Dev
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
I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
— Rabih Alameddine
In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.
— Rabih Alameddine
I'm a cup of tea in a world of lattes
— Len Goodman
I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.
— Cobi Jones
I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
— Abby Wambach
Messi on the World Cup 2014? He showed why he is the best player in the world. It was a pleasure to see him play.
— Alessandro Del Piero
It is very unlikely that [Lasith Malinga] would be able to play in the World Cup
— Sanath Jayasuriya
When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.
— Lleyton Hewitt
There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.
— Robbie Savage
The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.
— Lorrie Fair
The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.
— Jonny Wilkinson
We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.
— Jacob Zuma
My flat's about half a mile away, and you know what I'd like most of all in the world? I'd like a cup of tea. Come on, let's go and put the kettle on.
— Philip Pullman
Nobody likes being criticised, particularly by players who will be in Disneyland this summer on their holidays rather than the World Cup in Japan
— Phil Thompson
In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.
— Gianluigi Buffon
We're going to do it. We're going to get to the World Cup.
— Wayne Rooney
Where love and wisdom drink out of the same cup, in this everyday world, it is the exception.
— Suzanne Curchod
I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
— Gabriel Basso
You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.
— Brian O'Driscoll
We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament.
— Jurgen Klinsmann
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
They knew who I was in Australia in 2006, but not to a great extent. Now, with the momentum of a second World Cup, it has gone crazy.
— Timothy F. Cahill
The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
— Zlatan Ibrahimovic
When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that Dhoni hit in the 2011 World Cup final.
— Sunil Gavaskar
I played under many Captains, but Dhoni is the one, who fulfilled my Dream of winning World Cup
— Sachin Tendulkar
I raised my cup in salute. "We are out to save the world and we are riding Dragons. It's a Big Damn Quest and we are Big Damn Heroes." Ember
— Bryan Fields
This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.
— John Helm
I think every national team has the same possibilities to win the World Cup.
— Javier Hernandez
If Belgium win the World Cup, I will cut my hair.
— Marouane Fellaini
One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.
— Rabih Alameddine
After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.
— Oliver Kahn
It was like a bunch of lizards watching the World Cup. Politely put, they weren't sure what they were looking at. But
— James S.A. Corey
My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
— Abby Wambach
There's nothing quite like a World Cup.
— Michael Owen
That's the dream. Being on the U.S. National team and winning the World Cup. I'll take the win anyway I can get it.
— Freddy Adu
Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'
— Jehane Noujaim
I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.
— Ronaldo
A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee.
These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days. — R.M. Engelhardt
These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days. — R.M. Engelhardt
The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.
— Alan Hansen
It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.
— Alisher Usmanov
After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: The French are predictably unpredictable.
— Andrew Mehrtens
You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It's great to be here.
— Will Ferrell
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.
— Pele
The World Cup is a truly International event.
— John Motson
Don't ever in your life do a World Cup and the Olympic Games at the same time. This will make your life almost impossible.
— Eduardo Paes
I Can't win the World Cup alone
— AB De Villiers
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 with one-day cricket.
— Andy Pick
I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.
— Mikaela Shiffrin
I've scored many goals that I've liked, but I think the best memory I have is the one against Korea in the 2010 World Cup.
— Luis Suarez
My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.
— Just Fontaine
I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.
— Jonny Wilkinson
Hump it, bump it, whack it! It might be a recipe for a good sex life but it won't win the World Cup.
— Ken Bates
Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.
— Graham Taylor
The wheel turns. Blue above, green below, we wander a long way, but love is what the cup of our soul contains when we leave the world and the flesh.
— Louise Murphy
England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'
— Joey Barton
If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.
— Michel Patini
If you want to win the World Cup, you need to play against the best national teams in the world.
— Javier Hernandez
I like English football, always have. It's just that people go on about the World Cup in 1986 and then I'm seen as the real bad boy.
— Diego Maradona
Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.
— Cobi Jones
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
We wanted to give back to the fans what they've given us, and that is unbelievable support thoughout the World Cup
— Carla Overbeck
Only, so far, it was like a bunch of lizards watching the World Cup. Politely put, they weren't sure what they were looking at.
— James S.A. Corey
Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.
— Neymar
My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.
— Hope Solo
It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
— Sachin Tendulkar
Victoria Beckham looks like she has a dump once every four years. That's probably how David knows that there's a World Cup coming up.
— Frankie Boyle
Hattie handed me a fresh cup of coffee. "Off you go now. Write a masterpiece that will save the world," she cackled nudging me out of the kitchen.
— Kaylie Hunter
I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.
— Jermain Defoe