A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.
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“A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.”
— Gary Lineker · Cups
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“A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.”
“I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.”
“In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.”
“This whole science thing of working out if players are a little bit tired just gives you an excuse to leave them out.”
“World Cups can be career-defining.”
“Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.”
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“There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.”
“I played in three World Cups, and I would say that it was the last one that I enjoyed the most.”
“When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.”
“I joke that I only play in World Cups.”
“In the last two World Cups, I realised that when you put a lot of pressure on yourself, it does not work.”
“Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.”