35 World Cup Quotes On Success

The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men’s national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport’s global governing body. The tournament has been held every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The reigning champions are Argentina, who won their third title at the 2022 tournament. May these World Cup Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.

1. “As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I’ll be doing it for real.” Robbie Keane

2. “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

3. “I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey, no I mean Tunisia.” David Seaman

4. “Football World Cup has the magic of bringing peace where it goes and the Middle East could benefit from FIFA’s football diplomacy.” Anonymous

5. “Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.” Rio Ferdinand

6. “I don’t feel pressure. I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, July 9, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.” Andrea Pirlo

7. “When there is a World Cup the world stops, the country stops, everyone is hugging each other, whether old or young, everyone stops just to enjoy the football.” Hulk

8. “I feel I have grown up. I am a man. It’s important in my football too. When everything is good, I don’t think you grow up fantastically, I think maybe you need a few problems to grow up. It is good if people in England have started to admire me. I think I have changed a little since the World Cup. I am stronger with my mentality and with my game as well.” Cristiano Ronaldo

9. “That goal [in the 1998 World Cup] changed me-not as a person, but as a player. People have looked at me differently ever since. It gave me confidence and now I feel I can achieve anything.” David Beckham

10. “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

11. “The truth is that I don’t have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.” Lionel Messi

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

13. “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).” Kasey Keller

14. “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

15. “I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t believe I was good enough to be here and hopefully I can perform well for my club and try and get to the World Cup.” Peter Crouch

16. “Football is the only sport that all love- child to old. Football world cup rocks every time, everywhere.” Anonymous

17. “Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.” Serge Schmemann

18. “I’m looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.” Bobby Charlton

19. “The first time I watched a World Cup game was in 2002. That was the first time Senegal had ever qualified for the World Cup, and it was great moment that I will never forget in my life. I was ten years old at the time, and that experience of watching my country in a World Cup is what inspired me to become a footballer.” Sadio Mane

20. “The World Cup was a huge frustration because I had prepared really hard for it. But in the World Cup there is no formula, no recipe for success.” Kaka

21. “For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I’ve had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I’ll never forget either feeling.” Ronaldinho

22. “In ’82 Brazil showed that you can’t win the World Cup without a solid defense.” Alan Hansen

23. “It’s like a rugby team. If you’re picking for the World Cup final, you’re picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.” Prince William

24. “You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.” Lionel Messi

25. “I wasn’t as fit as I would have liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I’m not sure what difference that made.” David Beckham

26. “I’d love to go and I’d love to play for my country and go to a World Cup again. I’ve got to accept I’m not in the current squad and just think, ‘If I get it, it’s a bonus and I’ll give it everything.’ But it’s hard to do when you’ve been thinking a different way all your life.” Michael Owen

27. “The World Cup experience is more than just the game of soccer. It’s an event. And it will fly by faster than you think. It will end and you’ll be saying, ‘Wow, it’s over already?’ You have to remember to take it all in and enjoy it.” Cobi Jones

28. “I would not swap the World Cup title for any accolade. But I could imagine that quite a few would swap every accolade for a World Cup title.” Toni Kroos

29. “Everyone knows that England are a far better team than their World Cup performance suggests. It’s vital that we play with confidence and take the strength and competition of the engage Super League in to the Four Nations.” Paul Sculthorpe

30. “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

31. “I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.” Jermain Defoe

32. “The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.” Martin Jacques

33. “It is fun, competitive, educational, and intriguing. It is as fun to watch as it is to play. Football world cup always gifts us that chance to enjoy.” Anonymous

34. “The only time you should think about winning the World Cup is when you’re holding it above your head in celebration once the final is over. Anything else is presumptuous.” Stewart Stafford

35. “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

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