Crystal Dunn Quotes

The players you really feel bad for are the younger players, who haven't had a chance to experience playing in a World Cup.

I think I have had my story with France. Unfortunately, it's not the story I would have liked. I would have liked to have played a World Cup; I would have liked to have done a lot more for the French national team.

If you have any setback in your life, like not being in the England squad was for me - any setback, like losing a family member - everyone handles it in different ways. When I first wasn't included I was numb. I'd been the main England striker for years and years. It was really disappointing.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

The World Cup is the World Cup, and I'm sad I won't play in it; that's my only regret. But to play a friendly with my national team, I did it many times, so it's not something I'm missing.

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

Not being in the playoffs is frustrating.

It's not fun to watch your team go out, and guys that you've worked so hard with, and the countless hours you've put in on your own time to go and showcase all your hard work, and then have it taken from you and then see your boys playing without you.

As someone who loves being on the field with his teammates, it's hard to hear that you're not going to be the one playing.

I experienced great sadness with our elimination from the 1990 World Cup, with many penalties. I still have that feeling of injustice in me.

If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?

Our performance during this World Cup has not been enough to progress further and both myself and all the players regret that and are hurt more than people realise.

I would love to play for Real Madrid. And I want to win a World Cup for the U.S. so bad. When the women won it, everybody went crazy. I would love to be part of something like that.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life.

I am surprised by what people expect of me.

It's so damned humiliating.

You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin' life again? Man, that's rough, eh?

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.