Alex Scott Quotes

I thought it was really important for my son to come to a World Cup with my missus, who has been there for me from day one and supported me.

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

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.

Of course, my father was a soccer player. He used to play very good. Then, when I was young, eight or nine years old, ten years old, I just want to be like my father.

It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun.

I wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup.

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.

I think it's pretty crazy when I walk down in the airport and a 12-year-old boy comes up to me and says, 'Hey, I watched you at the World Cup. Great game! Great job!' I love that.

I find football much more powerful than what grown-ups want it to be. It's a community to me; it's something very meaningful in the life of many, many people and especially the youth. And, therefore, I think it can bring social cohesion.

Becoming World Cup captain, I can't express in words the feeling and thanks to everyone.

The popularity of rugby definitely grew in South Africa over the World Cup, and sport has great power, so hopefully it will make some difference. Even if it's just 1%, it's a bit of a change.

When we go and cheer Cynthia Erivo on in 'The Color Purple,' it's because we've elected her to be our voice. She sings 'I'm Here' for all of us.

Me and a lot of my team-mates still think and speak about the World Cup in 1994, when Sweden finished third.

I never dreamed I would captain England in a home World Cup.

United is a special place.

There is not a day I wake up and do not think of the World Cup.

A World Cup is always something special and simply indescribable - and being able to hold something in your hands at the end of it all is just incredible.

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.

For a player or coach, there is nothing better than the World Cup.

It might sound very cocky or naive of me, or self-centered, but I want to win a World Cup for my country.

I've kept all of my shirts that wore in the World Cup games, and I'll be giving them to my family to keep.

I was 15 when I won the World Cup Guarana Antarctica in 2004. It was a very special moment.

You meet somebody on a bus or something, and they say, 'Thank you for the World Cup; it was so good to see,' and stuff like this - it's funny.

You change the mind and world of one individual and that's huge, man. You reach one person and that starts a spiral effect and starts to snowball. I think that's the one thing as an athlete we should all focus on doing and that's striving to give back in a positive manner.