Thiago Alcantara Quotes

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

I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

The Premier League and the World Cup are equally important to me.

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

We are Italy. It's only right that there is competition in attack, like there is in every other role.

I'd like to play against Messi and Iniesta.

In Spain, people understand football is a fun game, and enjoyment comes first. After that, business follows.

I want to be in the World Cup.

I think football in general globally has a unique way of uniting people instead of dividing people.

My goal is to play at the World Cup.

In the World Cup, you have to respect every team.

Football can help carve a more diverse world.

The reason why the entire world sits up and watches World Cup football is the intensity of involvement with which people are playing a game: just kicking a ball around, but with such skill and involvement that it is like the last thing they are going to do in their life.

When you play against Barcelona and other great teams in the world, you can lose. It happens.

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

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!

My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.

Soccer is a magical game.

The movie, 'Remember the Titans,' is my favorite movie, staring Denzel Washington. I love the way in this movie the game of football brings those boys together, it unites those boys on that football field. It unites a whole town, black, white, old, young, rich and poor.

My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.

Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.

If you want to win the World Cup, you need to play against the best national teams in the world.

I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.