Global Event Quotes

How we have dreamt of this event [September 11, 2001], how all the world without exception dreamt of this event, for no one can avoid dreaming of the destruction of a power that has become hegemonic …. It is they who acted but we who wanted the deed.

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

It was a great Olympics - Team USA finished the games with 17 more medals than China. China said it was tough to swallow - especially when they had to make all of our "We're #1" T-shirts.

This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.

Chicago is a fantastic city, and I can easily see the Olympics setting themselves right here in Chicago.

World Cup is the most important title I have won. There is no doubt about that.

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.

At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.

I'm excited to be part of the world's biggest dance show. What attracted me towards the show, apart from its global popularity, was the format of street versus stage.

And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.

The Premier League and the World Cup are equally important to me.

I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.

The World Cup has been life-changing, for many reasons.

I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey... no I mean Tunisia.

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

The Olympics are never just about sports.

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

Whether you're male or female, going to a World Cup is the biggest thing that will ever happen in your life.

I still can't believe I'm going to a World Cup.

It is a childhood dream to be in the World Cup.

I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the world.

I'd love to see a global competition other than the World Cup.