Qualifying Rounds Quotes

I am, after all, a NASCAR fan.

The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.

I'm very confident about being on the grid in Australia in 2003.

Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.

If you qualify for a World Cup and expect to get an easy group, you are in the wrong sport. It doesn't work like that.

I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

In the Champions League, there are no weak teams.

There's nothing quite like being part of a NASCAR race weekend, and that always will hold true.

My dad raced so we were out at the racetrack late at night on Saturdays, getting up early on Sunday morning going to church.

The World Cup is a tough tournament.

I joke that I only play in World Cups.

I have always said that I do not want to play in the Europa League.

I need to be playing in the Champions League.

You cannot compare warm-ups with World Cup games.

Anyone who's been the Olympic trials before is a veteran.

I've been playing 90 minutes in MLS games. But when you're playing internationally in World Cup qualifiers, there's a little bit extra incentive there. It's win or go home.

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

I could have played in a lot of Monday qualifiers for PGA Tour events, which would have been fine as long as I was getting through. But Monday qualifiers can also be depressing if you are missing out time and again.

The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.

It's not easy to win a Cup. Brazil spent a long time, over 20 years, before winning it, so it's not easy. The Cup is hard: it's each 4 years.

Talladega is one of the macho tracks on the circuit and when I was a kid, I remember everyone wanting to go watch this race because the cars go so fast on the circuit; there were so many great battles.

The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.

The favourites and the stronger teams have a lot of pressure during the group phase because everybody just takes it for granted that they will reach the round of 16.

When you make your final list for the World Cup or European Championship you don't take the 23 best players, that is for sure.