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International soccer has been a big part of my love for the sport. I love the Men's National Team. I can say that they're my favorite sports team. -- Drew Carey
Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer. -- James Harden
I wanted a T-shirt that says 'USA National Team'. It turned out to be a very smart decision. -- Mark Warkentin
I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honour of the Greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi. -- Kobe Bryant
I want to help the Brazilian National Team the best way possible, whether is with goals, assists or even a slide tackle, whatever. -- Neymar
I live with fellow speed skaters and National Team members Heather Richardson, Sugar Todd and Mitch Whitmore, and Sugar lives up to her name. She spoils our household with baked goods, and not just at Christmastime. -- Brittany Bowe
If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it. -- Lorrie Fair
The national team comes before everything. -- Lorrie Fair
I'd give my life to be the national team coach. -- Diego Maradona
I spent my first twenty years in Morocco, where I coached the national team. -- Just Fontaine
When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end. -- Diego Maradona
I've known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird. -- Tiffeny Milbrett
When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger. -- Ronaldinho
The only thing I want is the respect of the fans of Liverpool and the fans of the national team of Uruguay. -- Luis Suarez
It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team. -- Christine Todd Whitman
When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada. -- Christine Sinclair
I had a chance to play for the Cuban national team during the 2009 World Baseball Classic, but at the time I never thought about leaving Cuba. -- Yoenis Cespedes
The people of Cleveland hate soccer. But it's my favourite thing and I follow the U.S. men's national team around when they play whenever I can. -- Drew Carey
We don't sell a car, we sell a dream. We are Italy's national team. There are many great soccer teams in our country, but there is only one Ferrari. -- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys. -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team. -- Brandi Chastain
The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players. -- Roger Milla
My parents didn't know anything about collegiate scholarships, so they had accepted the national team training stipend, the monthly stipend that I received after making the national team, so I was ineligible for NCAA eligibility anyway. -- Dominique Moceanu
My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate. -- Yoenis Cespedes
Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle. -- Yoenis Cespedes
The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition. -- Gary Lineker
When people say 'American soccer,' they think of the U.S. national team. But American soccer also includes Major League Soccer, and until we have a league that produces players at the rate other leagues around the world do, I don't believe we'll ever get to where we want to be. -- Landon Donovan
I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played. -- Thierry Henry
I had role models in my community, guys that were older than me and played at university or on the national team. Eli Pasquale was always around UVic when I was a young player, and the national team was around Victoria a little bit, so I got to watch those guys and learn from them. -- Steve Nash
I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14. -- Apolo Ohno
FC Barcelona is the national team of Catalonia -- Carles Puyol
I am not a supporter of buying a national team. -- Oliver Bierhoff
Some of their players are internationals; some play for their national team. -- Steve McClaren
If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team. -- Jurgen Klinsmann
If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed. -- John Calipari
This MayagÃ¼ez gold, my third consecutive with the national team, has a strawberry flavor. -- Milagros Cabral
The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age. -- Don Drysdale
Since the national team doesn't have a stadium yet, they'll come to play here, at Sofia airport. -- Ivan Slavkov
Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him. -- Carlos Queiroz
When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare. -- Oren Lyons
I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest. -- Arsene Wenger
Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time. -- Bob Beauprez
Ive known since I went to the national team when I was very young that I was a different bird. -- Tiffeny Milbrett
I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice. -- Louis van Gaal
Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team. -- Bob Cousy
It is always disappointing when a player is not prepared to stick it out and fight for his place in a national team. -- Rudolph Straeuli
That's the dream. Being on the U.S. National team and winning the World Cup. I'll take the win anyway I can get it. -- Freddy Adu
Anytime you have any opportunity to be with the national team it's an honor and a challenge, and it is something I am looking forward to. -- Heather Mitts
The Cincinnati Bengals look like the most complete team in the National Football League. I can't wait to see how they match up against New England. -- Sterling Sharpe
If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one. -- Mitch McConnell
When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players. -- Abby Wambach
In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team. -- Luis Suarez
If you want to be a professional soccer player, if you want to make the national team, you have to do everything possible to work hard. You've got to put it number one. -- Carli Lloyd
If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team. -- Herbert Hainer
The European Commission says that people who are working the country can play in the national team. Perhaps Didier Drogba can play for England after five years. We have to protect against that. -- Michel Patini
Being successful means good results for the national team at first in the regional competitions like the Asian Cup and keeping in mind to go for Gold at a World Cup in the future. -- Berti Vogts
My goal is to get on the national team. People joke that we'll be able to go to Beijing in 2008, but it's just jokes right now. Hopefully I'll be able to make it a reality. -- Lindsay Thompson

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