Samir Nasri Quotes

Whenever you put so much time and effort into one single game, and you go out there and lose, it sucks.

I have put a lot of energy and focus into capturing the Cruiserweight Championship, but obviously I didn't get the job done.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

In my career, I finished in second place six times. I played on teams that were in it to the very end. It's frustrating.

Winning the World Cup is what we have to do with Brazil. Every day that is what is in my head.

To not play in the Champions League is a disappointment, something negative.

Every time I step on to the pitch, I give my all.

I'll do anything to get a place in the national team.

I was 22, and getting into a World Cup squad is what you dream about as a kid, so finishing third was fantastic.

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.

I'm passionate about the game. Anytime you work as hard and a play doesn't go the way you wanted, you get frustrated.

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.

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

I want to be more than just some guy who played in a World Cup final.

I've never wanted anything as much as I want to win the next Super Bowl.

Nobody in the footballing world got here by having it handed to them.

If you don't play with intensity in this league, you're going to get embarrassed. Without hard work, you don't have a chance.

Football is my passion, and who knows where I will play in the future - you cannot foresee that.

I don't think about anything other than focusing at Real Madrid.

Those who know me well know that the World Cup is my goal.

Any player would want to be involved in games against Argentina.