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I've never played a match this long, so I have to recover as much as I can for the final now, i'd like to have been done a little bit earlier in terms of my recovery, playing against two of the greatest players of all time. – Kevin Anderson	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I am disappointed of course but these things happen, i lost Maria Lasitskene. I had no problem, no injuries, it was just a bad day. Now I need to go back to training and work hard. – Maria Lasitskene	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We didn't know this, it took almost three days. The road is terrible. – Dubravko Flegar	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It's too expensive at the moment. They asked $2,000. It's too much, it's a lot. For us four guys, that's $8,000. We could buy a car. – Dubravko Flegar	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It's a lot. For us four guys, that's $8,000. We could buy a car. – Dubravko Flegar	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Kerber maybe edges it on movement, but Serena wins everything else : serve, return of serve, pace, variety, experience, you name it, serena loves to turn it up a notch at every level and very few players can hold their nerve. – Martina Navratilova	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
That's how I started cycling. When I was 10 I went out and did youth cycling league in the summer, and that's how I got started, i started racing on a track for a few years before I transitioned to road, but was always was involved in track. I grew up 10 minutes away and have always held it near and dear to my heart. – Lawson Craddock	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
When I got No. 13 I tried to tell myself it was lucky, but when I hit that bottle in the feed zone it was one of the first things that came into my mind, but at this point, something really great has come out of it. It is hard for me to sit there and complain about a broken shoulder when people are suffering and have not so much more than I have. – Lawson Craddock	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
If you take the emotional side, (we ended on) a positive note, but on the sports side... sports are about titles. And we don't have a title. So for this we are disappointed of course. – Stanislav Cherchesov	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We hope that a new era will start in Russia, that everyone will want to play soccer, that's the most important thing, in fact. – Stanislav Cherchesov	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
This country, Russia, has changed. Russia has become a real football country... where football has become part of the country's DNA and the culture, we had 98 percent occupancy of the stadiums, one million fans from abroad to discover this country, more than three billion viewers on television and there will certainly be one billion for the final. – Gianni Infantino	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We are all, as well, volunteers, maybe not at the World Cup, because we have a job, but as soon as we go back home we drive our children to their football or basketball tournaments and we help selling drinks, preparing sausages, or helping in the restaurants. – Gianni Infantino	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
This is progress, this is better than the past, vAR is not changing football, it is cleaning football. – Gianni Infantino	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
First we will discuss with the Qataris and then with the FIFA Council and stakeholders and decide calmly what the decision is, for the moment, we have a World Cup with 32 teams. – Gianni Infantino	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
For a couple of years, I was saying it would be World Cup ever, today I can say that with more conviction. – Gianni Infantino	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I want to win this World Cup and to do that you have to make sacrifices. Defending isn't my strong point, I'm not Kante, but I'll happily do it. I have grown up and matured. – Paul Pogba	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
And then it got completely derailed by the Ukraine fiasco. – Michael Payne	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The result is that Russia has a different reputation. – Arkady Dvorkovich	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It's exactly what President Putin would have wanted, just on the whole breaking down the stereotypes of Russia ... it has done immeasurable good. – Jon Tibbs	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
There will be economic impact studies and surveys that will be done that will show that business investment will pick up on the back of this, international companies that were afraid of investing in Russia or have pulled out, or were going to pull out, will change their minds and think: 'It's nowhere as near as bad as we thought'. – Jon Tibbs	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
This is, as it currently stands, a poster child of a nation rebranding its international image through the hosting of a major event. – Michael Payne	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
NG is always very reserved, very calm and very timid, except when he is playing cards. – Paul Pogba	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
They will not stand empty, with this there are no problems whatsoever. – Vladimir Putin	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The arena will not turn into a White Elephant, that's for sure. It won't be a football-only ground, it will be multi-faceted. – Alexei Merkushkin	Found on Reuters 6 years ago

I've never played a match this long, so I have to recover as much as I can for the final now, i'd like to have been done a little bit earlier in terms of my recovery, playing against two of the greatest players of all time.

– Kevin Anderson

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I am disappointed of course but these things happen, i lost Maria Lasitskene. I had no problem, no injuries, it was just a bad day. Now I need to go back to training and work hard.

– Maria Lasitskene

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We didn't know this, it took almost three days. The road is terrible.

– Dubravko Flegar

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

It's too expensive at the moment. They asked $2,000. It's too much, it's a lot. For us four guys, that's $8,000. We could buy a car.

– Dubravko Flegar

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

It's a lot. For us four guys, that's $8,000. We could buy a car.

– Dubravko Flegar

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Kerber maybe edges it on movement, but Serena wins everything else : serve, return of serve, pace, variety, experience, you name it, serena loves to turn it up a notch at every level and very few players can hold their nerve.

– Martina Navratilova

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

That's how I started cycling. When I was 10 I went out and did youth cycling league in the summer, and that's how I got started, i started racing on a track for a few years before I transitioned to road, but was always was involved in track. I grew up 10 minutes away and have always held it near and dear to my heart.

– Lawson Craddock

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

When I got No. 13 I tried to tell myself it was lucky, but when I hit that bottle in the feed zone it was one of the first things that came into my mind, but at this point, something really great has come out of it. It is hard for me to sit there and complain about a broken shoulder when people are suffering and have not so much more than I have.

– Lawson Craddock

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

If you take the emotional side, (we ended on) a positive note, but on the sports side... sports are about titles. And we don't have a title. So for this we are disappointed of course.

– Stanislav Cherchesov

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We hope that a new era will start in Russia, that everyone will want to play soccer, that's the most important thing, in fact.

– Stanislav Cherchesov

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

This country, Russia, has changed. Russia has become a real football country... where football has become part of the country's DNA and the culture, we had 98 percent occupancy of the stadiums, one million fans from abroad to discover this country, more than three billion viewers on television and there will certainly be one billion for the final.

– Gianni Infantino

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We are all, as well, volunteers, maybe not at the World Cup, because we have a job, but as soon as we go back home we drive our children to their football or basketball tournaments and we help selling drinks, preparing sausages, or helping in the restaurants.

– Gianni Infantino

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

This is progress, this is better than the past, vAR is not changing football, it is cleaning football.

– Gianni Infantino

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

First we will discuss with the Qataris and then with the FIFA Council and stakeholders and decide calmly what the decision is, for the moment, we have a World Cup with 32 teams.

– Gianni Infantino

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

For a couple of years, I was saying it would be World Cup ever, today I can say that with more conviction.

– Gianni Infantino

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I want to win this World Cup and to do that you have to make sacrifices. Defending isn't my strong point, I'm not Kante, but I'll happily do it. I have grown up and matured.

– Paul Pogba

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

And then it got completely derailed by the Ukraine fiasco.

– Michael Payne

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The result is that Russia has a different reputation.

– Arkady Dvorkovich

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

It's exactly what President Putin would have wanted, just on the whole breaking down the stereotypes of Russia ... it has done immeasurable good.

– Jon Tibbs

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

There will be economic impact studies and surveys that will be done that will show that business investment will pick up on the back of this, international companies that were afraid of investing in Russia or have pulled out, or were going to pull out, will change their minds and think: 'It's nowhere as near as bad as we thought'.

– Jon Tibbs

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

This is, as it currently stands, a poster child of a nation rebranding its international image through the hosting of a major event.

– Michael Payne

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

NG is always very reserved, very calm and very timid, except when he is playing cards.

– Paul Pogba

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

They will not stand empty, with this there are no problems whatsoever.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The arena will not turn into a White Elephant, that's for sure. It won't be a football-only ground, it will be multi-faceted.

– Alexei Merkushkin

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

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