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  • At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.

    Boys   Fever   World  
  • I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.

    World   Want   Cups  
  • The one who’s really, really impressed me is Benedikt Höwedes because he’s playing out of position. He’s never played at left back before in his life but he’s having a first-rate World Cup. So, the most astonishing player for me is Höwedes.

    Player   Cups   Firsts  
  • I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.

    World   Want   Buzz  
  • India riding on MS Dhoni wave, Dhoni is a different man in World Cups

    Men   Ms Dhoni   India  
  • 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 marathon - it's the same.

    "Haile Gebrselassie bows to will of his people for one last hurrah". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.
  • 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.

    Player   Messi   World  
  • At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

    Distance   Team   Risk  
    "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.
  • We're not going to walk into the World Cup thinking, 'Ah, you know, we beat Norway 5-0 and we beat Japan so now we're great and we're untouchable'. It's a reality check for a few guys and that's a good thing at this time so it doesn't happen on June 12 (when the U.S. team opens World Cup play against the Czech Republic).

    Team   Reality   Thinking  
  • We're going to do it. We're going to get to the World Cup.

  • My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job.

    Football   Jobs   Player  
  • It was a huge thrill, to step on a pitch of a championship like the World Cup, is a sensation that... You know, passes everything in your head.

    Steps   Thrill   World  
    Source: fzneymar.tumblr.com
  • I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far.

    "Jacques Kallis adds one-day and T20 to Test cricket retirement". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2014.
  • I can't believe so much media attention is being paid to Fernando Torres and his loss of form, when the answer is staring us all in the face. It's his hair. His moping and ineffectual performances began just in time for the World Cup, which took place just after he substituted his dodgy blonde locks for a more serious brunette do

    Believe   Loss   Media  
  • It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

    Sports   Country   World  
    Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.
  • Success is not winning the World Cup. It may be a goal in your mind but success is having a team that is improving all the time.

    Team   Winning   Goal  
    Source: www.china.org.cn
  • Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

    Games   Community   World  
  • I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

    Records   World   Proud  
    Jonny Wilkinson (2011). “Jonny: My Autobiography”, p.228, Hachette UK
  • The combination of an out-of-control tabloid press and a readership that thrills to the destruction of the England head coach is something no other country can offer. Scolari was driven out; Steve McClaren's personal life made the front pages. Neither of them even held the job. Then there was the fake-sheikhing of Sven-Göran Eriksson. That a newspaper should so brilliantly and deliberately destabilise the national head coach in a World Cup year is something no other sporting nation would consider.

  • Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

    Finals   World   Want  
    "Gerrard Sounds Clarion Call". www.theguardian.com. October 05, 2005.
  • I was a 21-year-old kid back then and I had my whole career in front of me. We were so close to reaching the World Cup and then we all woke up the next morning to realize our dreams had been dashed.

    Dream   Morning   Kids  
  • Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

    Mean   Player   Years  
  • A World Cup without Zlatan is not worth watching.

    World   Cups   World Cup  
  • I know in college, a player is playing for something every year so it is constantly competitive while in residency although you're playing with the top players in your age, you don't have many competitions other than the U-17 or U-20 World Cups.

    Player   College   Years  
    "Profile of a Golden Bear: Steve Purdy". BerkeleySportsBlog.com Interview, www.californiagoldenblogs.com. October 26, 2009.
  • 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.

  • There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

    World   Cups   World Cup  
    "Michael Owen the England cheerleader entertains thoughts of management" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2010.
  • 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 small-cap funds. And your lucky numbers this week are 2, 13--" "Not those questions!" Menshikov snapped.

  • 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.

  • It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

    Soccer   Sports   Country  
  • It is very unlikely that [Lasith Malinga] would be able to play in the World Cup

    Play   World   Able  
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