Cup Quotes

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.

I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

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

As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasnt made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.

I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in charge must be passionate and realise he owes it to the nation to win the World Cup.

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.

Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

I didn't have a cup of coffee until I was 27.

I would love to play for Real Madrid. And I want to win a World Cup for the U.S. so bad. When the women won it, everybody went crazy. I would love to be part of something like that.

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.

I wish I could play the World Cup; thats one of my dreams.

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.

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

Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'

I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again.

Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.

This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldnt bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

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.

Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.

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

[Wayne Rooney] best tournament was the 2004 European Championships, when he played alongside me and made such a big impact, but it hasn't happened for him at the World Cup for one reason or another.

I want to go to the World Cup. I want to go to the Masters. I want to go... anywhere.

If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.

The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.

To play in the World Cup and try to win something for England was the ultimate.

Nobody likes being criticised, particularly by players who will be in Disneyland this summer on their holidays rather than the World Cup in Japan

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

Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

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.

They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that... really!

The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.

The important thing for me was that the World Cup should travel round the world.

I think everyone around the world knows the tools are there in England's armoury to do well in a World Cup. The challenge is to go out there and prove it.

When it's game situation, when it's game day, game time, when it's World Cup, when it's these tournaments that happen once every so often, I live for that, I live for that challenge.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.

Anyone who has used that comforting phrase 'a nice cup of tea' invariably means Indian tea.

Drink from the cup of life, you will be fulfilled.Yet...drink from the milk container in the fridge, and your wife will make you wish that you had drunk from the cup of life.

I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.

The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love, then this cup is love, then this tavern is love, then this life is love.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!

Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.

You can't drink from the cup while you're filling it up.

A cup of tea is all I need to keep working.

I forgot to supannoyancefrom his glass full ofmingled dread and rageNow let me takea small draught of solacefrom my own little cupfull of predicaments!From the poem- Draught