Sepp Blatter Quotes

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

Clubs in other countries can step up, and we can kick on with women's football even more.

Football is global; it does not end at Barca.

Europe is leading the world in the sport of football. I want to utilize my experience from Europe to support the development of football in Asian countries.

There is a risk women's football becomes the most popular spectator sport that fans tune into every four years but are not interested in parting with their money to watch the same players on their doorstep.

It is a great pleasure for me to take on this important role as bid ambassador for the Qatar 2022 Bid, which I believe represents an essential expansion of the FIFA ideals to a new part of the world.

Football itself is a great sport with which we are proud to be associated. We want to be proud to be associated with FIFA and hope and look forward to working with them to that end.

There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.

Enzo, my dad, supports Juventus, so that's my team and, obviously, Italy, who I've been fortunate enough to see win two World Cups.

I believe an African team will one day win the World Cup, and it could even be in Brazil.

Maradona has done a lot for his clubs, as Messi does, and for the Argentina national team.

There's no shortage of investment into Manchester United.

I got to be around an England team at a World Cup in Brazil, and that was an amazing experience.

International football's not always about playing the top three in the world - it's about going to some of the tougher places around Europe and playing real tough games.

It's happened so quickly, starting at Tottenham, playing for England.

There was a lot of criticism in Boston that we weren't going to spend money on the Red Sox after we did the Liverpool transaction. Then there was the fear we wouldn't spend in Liverpool. Hopefully the fans of both clubs will eventually see what we see clearly - that there is nothing to fear from the existence of the other club.

The closest you are going to get to playing international football is the Champions League.

Germans have a rich history of playing well in the World Cup.

Football is about as popular as it can be in the U.S. The upside, the expansion and growth lies overseas.

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

England against France is such a massive match; you can't get much bigger than that in European football. It's a huge rivalry.

You think about past World Cups - in 2006, it was a fantastic Brazil team, but we did not do so well that year. In 2010, the same: it did not go far, either - only the quarter-finals. But in '94 and 2002, Brazil did not play the best football but won the World Cup; they found a way to win.

My favourite football memory is the opening match of France '98, and unfortunately Scotland had drawn Brazil.

Monaco have been very important for me. It's the club that has helped me into the Selecao.

I want to win the World Cup. I want to be the world's number one.