A Quote by Joachim Low

You can play happy-go-lucky football against Brazil in a friendly but not in a tournament. — © Joachim Low
You can play happy-go-lucky football against Brazil in a friendly but not in a tournament.
You think about past World Cups - in 2006, it was a fantastic Brazil team, but we did not do so well that year. In 2010, the same: it did not go far, either - only the quarter-finals. But in '94 and 2002, Brazil did not play the best football but won the World Cup; they found a way to win.
From the start, all I did was play football. I briefly played badminton and won a tournament when I was 12, but really, it was always football.
I do not play football to win the Ballon d'Or. I play football to be happy, because I love it and want to play football.
I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
Since I was five or six years old, I just wanted to be a professional football player. I wanted to play against the best players. I wanted to play in big stadiums in front of big crowds, and I was desperate to play for my country one day, and thankfully, I was lucky enough that happened.
Money is important, but the most important thing for me is to play football, and then I'm happy. OK, you want to earn a good amount of money to be secure, but if I chose money, I would go to Russia and already have a lot more. I like to play football, and that is it.
I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.
Football, you can go out and buy a football and play it in your backyard. Basketball, you can go out and play it in the schoolyard or in your driveway. Baseball, you get a glove and a bat and a ball and you go out and play in the neighborhood. You can't do that in hockey.
I'm not sure if it's easier to play against teams who try to play football against you rather than sit back.
Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
It would be fantastic to play against Germany and Brazil.
I had my first professional fight was in 2001 in Venezuela - it was also my first international trip away from Brazil. It was a great experience. Then in 2005, I went to Finland and won. The next year there was a tournament in Brazil with three fights in one night. I was the underdog and won all three fights.
The best players in the world play in Europe so that's where you want to go when you play in Brazil.
I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a lot of jerks recently.
The only thing you are really here to do is play football. So when you get a chance to go to the draft, and that part is over with, and you get signed on to a team, and you're ready to go, now it's back to everything you've been doing to get to this point, and that's play football.
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