It is a sentiment which few will be feeling for Brazil's 2010 World Cup team.
The five-times champions were due to head home on Saturday evening and are almost certain to receive a mauling from the media, already at loggerheads at coach Dunga over his team's perceived lack of style and flair, after their quarter-final exit at the hands of Netherlands.
Former Brazil striker Ronaldo suggested that Felipe Melo, cast as the villain after an own goal and sending-off in Friday's game, should keep a low profile in the next few weeks.
"Felipe Melo should not spend his holiday in Brazil," he wrote on his Twitter page. "The boys fought, were dignified and strong. Unfortunately we all lost."
Despite being one of the most technically gifted teams at the World Cup, Dunga's team put work rate, tactics and patriotism above talent and showed only isolated flashes of inspiration.
They brought only four forwards and two creative midfielders to South Africa, were not prepared to take risks and then criticised their opponents for "not wanting to play".
Playing uninspiring football and failing to win the World Cup is the worst possible combination in the eyes of the Brazilian public and Dunga's side is likely to join the 1966 and 1990 teams in being considered the worst the country has produced.
Carlos Alberto Torres, captain of Brazil's winning 1970 World Cup team, said Dunga had paid the price for blind loyalty to the team which won the 2007 Copa America and the Confederations Cup last year.
"He went on about this business of having a united, closed group," Carlos Alberto told Reuters. "That's nonsense. The national team is for the best.
"Because of this philosophy, he left out the Santos lads, who are in great form, and experienced players, who you always need in a Cup."
Dunga made it clear after Friday's stunning defeat that his four-year cycle had ended, leaving Brazil to search for his successor.
