Alan Hansen Quotes

I scored my first goal with the national team against France.

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

Getting to the World Cup is a big dream for me.

Playing with Neymar is something extraordinary.

My best World Cup memory as a fan? The Michael Owen goal against Argentina at the 1998 World Cup in France.

My goal is to play at the World Cup.

Messi is so quick; he's so good. For me, he's the best player in the world.

I never played in a World Cup. I wasn't good enough.

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

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.

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.

I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference.

I think that the World Cup is a big factor for this increased interest. I don't believe all of this is a result of just myself but also because of the others who are playing abroad.

I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.

My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.

There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

The World Cup is a truly International event.

Having played in U.S.A. in 1994, in France in 1998, as well as the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan - the first on the Asian continent - I have witnessed the excitement and passion unleashed in those different parts of the world.

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

It would be fantastic to play against Germany and Brazil.

I want to win the Euros. And the World Cup and the Champions League.