Declan Rice Quotes

When you're growing up and thinking about being a footballer, you want to make as many caps and play as many games as you can.

I want to be playing into January for the rest of my career, God willing.

It was a dream to play the World Cup and I will play for sure in the future.

Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?

I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.

I will be a World Cup winner.

No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.

I came to England because I thought it would help me to get back in the Brazilian national team.

It is a childhood dream to be in the World Cup.

It would be fantastic to play against Germany and Brazil.

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.

Of course, I want to play for England as often as I can and at major tournaments.

You don't play eight years and all of a sudden let your game go down just for a trade.

It's a privilege and an honor to play for the national team, but I think that the training that I was in at Frankfurt was the highest level right underneath.

Whether Under-17 level, the 21s, or senior team, it's my dream to play for England as often as I can.

My dream was to play for France. It's been my dream since childhood.

As long as I can play at a certain level, that's what I'll do.

I always wanted to be one of the best players in the world like Zinedine Zidane, so it was great that I ended up playing at West Ham against some of the best players in the world.

As a tennis player, or any professional athlete, our career has a shelf life. I don't want to waste any opportunities, I don't want to look back on it when I'm 45 and think I could have done a lot more.

I thought my dream job was to play cricket.

There's been many highs throughout my international career which I'll always remember with fondness, including my debut against Northern Ireland, winning two international player of the year awards, and my hat-trick in Malta.

It would be great to play in a Scotland side that defeated England. That could be another box ticked off for me.

I have played international football myself.

I think all great players set a target for themselves in their careers. Mine was to win a world title with Brazil, which I did twice.

It's funny that as soon as I retired from international football, Italy won the World Cup.