Philipp Lahm Quotes

I tried to do everything on the pitch to play at the World Cup. It wasn't enough.

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.

It was very painful to be so close to a World Cup final.

If you ask my one regret, it is that I could not bring those City fans a trophy. That's the only thing that leaves me a little sad.

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

The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!

My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.

You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.

It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.

For me, the 1982 Brazil squad was the best, although we could not win the World Cup.

I've been part of five World Cups and we reached the semis only in 1996.

Winning the Premier League is never easy. Whether you're at home or away, the games are always tough.

A World Cup is always special because it is the highest podium on which you can show your abilities as an individual player or coach, and as a team.

I've been lucky enough to play in the final of a World Cup before, but it's always an amazing experience to walk out at a packed stadium.

I want to win all sorts of titles and then the World Cup with the Brazilian national team.

Me and a lot of my team-mates still think and speak about the World Cup in 1994, when Sweden finished third.

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

The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I've ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.

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

I've been involved in a couple of atrocious World Cups.

If success is about winning the league, there will always be 19 disappointed clubs.

It happens in football. You have bad days.

It's disappointing to lose a game with the chance to go into the semi-finals of the Champions League.

I want to continue to win things, hopefully something with England, and if I can score the winning goal at the World Cup, then maybe they will like me again.

After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.