Clint Dempsey Quotes

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

It's definitely the biggest honour to captain your country at a World Cup. Only three others have done it before me so it's obviously massive. I enjoyed every minute of it.

I'm very thrilled and excited to have been given the opportunity to captain England.

The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.

It's obviously a massive honour to captain your country.

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

We're trying to win a World Cup for our country, and I think everyone who supports football can get behind that.

I obviously respect the opportunity I have got to play for the country.

I got to experience being captain in the World Cup. For me, that was something special, and I'll always kind of remember, but it's never been a big thing for me to be captain.

We have big goals at Bayern and always want to go as far as possible in each competition and win silverware. But it is great to have won the World Cup. You are a world champion for your entire life. A lof of people talk about it and it remains very special. But it's not like I think about the World Cup each morning I wake up.

I have been massively proud to have played for and, indeed, captain my country on the cricket field.

The feeling of captaining our country to Asian Cup glory in 2015, and to have been able to contribute to achieving success for Australia, will stay with me forever.

If you are a club manager and things are going well, it's a great feeling because you've got the whole city behind you. If you're manager of your country and it's going well - and you've got a whole nation proud of you - I can't describe how that feels.

I'm a very lucky guy to play for my country, and I'm very happy and lucky to have this country.

I am very happy with it, it is a great honour to be the captain of your country.

I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.

My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time, we made a difference. We made (America) stronger - we made (America) freer - and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad. Not bad at all. And so, goodbye. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America.

To this day, one of my proudest achievements is captaining my country.

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.

There can be no greater privilege in life than to be chosen to lead your country.

You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.

It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach.

I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.

To play in the World Cup and try to win something for England was the ultimate.

I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.