Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Quotes

Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

I would love to have played with David Silva.

I have good memories of Manchester United.

I think England has got some great players.

Harry Kane is, of course, a very important player for England because he's the best player in the world.

There are lots of brilliant free kick specialists in the world. But the technique of Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham fascinates me most of all.

Luis Suarez is one of the best players in the national team - and in the world, in fact.

Of course, for the national team it is good to have Mesut Ozil in good form.

I am very proud to be the captain of the German national team.

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.

Every player would love to play a tournament like the World Cup at home.

In all my time in England, I have never come up against a fragile Man United team.

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.

The World Cup was the biggest thing ever for the national team, but the Champions League is the biggest thing for clubs.

Messi is the same player in Barcelona and Argentina, and it would be the same if he played with Australia.

It's like Barcelona who have Messi. He decides games with his attacking play; Oblak resolves them with his saves.

Back in my days, my favorite opponent was Diego Maradona.

When I think back to the 2006 World Cup on home soil, we came close but nobody really expected us to get very far. We simply lost to a better team and Italy went on to win it.

When I first came to England I hated football and knew nothing about it. Watching 0-0s and 1-0s having come from Aussie Rules was just dull. The only player I had heard of was David Beckham. But when I was living in Leicester I started watching Match of the Day and really got into Chelsea.

When I was setting out as a kid, five, six, seven years old, England was a dream. One of my best days as a player was my England debut - but it didn't quite happen after that!

It would be a dream to play in the World Cup.

Beckham takes free kicks better than me. It is a joy to watch him take free kicks and he has proved that free kicks are not all about power.

My first World Cup appearance remains fresh in my memory and what made it incredible was that I had made my first appearance for Nigeria just a year before.

I am not only privileged to work for the FA and England: I have enjoyed working for the FA and England.

It's still my ambition to be at the top level and be playing for England - especially, like, a competition like the World Cup.