Al Leiter Quotes

For everyone, the World Cup is important. It doesn't matter if you are 21, going for your first one, or 35 and going for your third one. It's the biggest stage you can play on, and every opportunity to experience it is something special.

It has felt like the World Cup was never going to come for me.

I have been very blessed to be given the opportunity to play for Super Eagles.

At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

It would be a dream to go to my first World Cup.

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

Whether you're male or female, going to a World Cup is the biggest thing that will ever happen in your life.

The World Cup is a very big event. Every player dreams of playing in one, and it was my dream, too.

I want to be in the World Cup.

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

Being able to have the World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the USA is a great honor for us. Being able to speak at the ceremony that announced they were bringing it here was a stepping stone for a young player like me. I'm happy that it's coming to Canada.

World Cup is very special because it happens once in four years, so for every individual, it's very special.

The World Cup focus is football. Team U.S.A. is more than football.

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

The World Cup has been life-changing, for many reasons.

I enjoy playing at Tottenham and England as well.

In the World Cup, I was happy to play anywhere.

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

One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.

I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.

My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.