Top 55 Romelu Lukaku Quotes

When you’re not happy, you don’t need to fake your emotions.

I’ve always had a goal to win as many trophies as I can and to play for a club like Manchester United.

I’ve been working to be a pro since I was 11 years old.

When younger, I was tall but very skinny. When I was 14, I grew and started gaining muscles. So I started doing sit-ups, abs work, press-ups, strengthening my core. I’d do 100-150 reps each day. I knew if my core was strong enough, I would get fewer muscle injuries.

I want to prove to other people that I have something in my mind and intellectual qualities, not just the ability to play football.

I love English, Spanish, and German football.

I ensure I am focused throughout the game, whether that is making a chance for myself or receiving the ball from a teammate to score.

If I don’t score, I try to give an assist; if I do score, I try to give an assist and score another.

I wanted to be the best footballer in Belgian history. That was my goal. Not good. Not great. The best.

As a youngster, you normally have to play. How will you be one of the best not playing?

The billions watching and following the Premier League don’t tune in to see you in training. They want to know what you can do in a match.

People want to see you on the pitch. That was why I left Chelsea. I didn’t want to hear people saying, ‘Hey, he’s doing well in training, blah blah blah… ‘ The game is what counts.

I’m used to playing under pressure. In the Premier League, there are big players and big teams – we are used to it.

As long as I win and lead my team to winning, that’s when I will be really satisfied.

If you don’t have ambition to be one of the best, someone will always come and take your place.

Hard work eliminates fear. That’s how I think.

As a football player, I don’t play for the individual.

I always said I wanted to play for a team that’s challenging for every trophy that there is there.

A move to MLS – you never know. New York or Los Angeles, you never know.

People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I’m the strongest dude you’re ever going to meet.

I don’t touch anything I don’t deserve.

At Manchester United, we play to win. That’s my first mentality when I get onto the pitch. Then everything else comes with it.

I’m very fast, I’m very strong, and I work a lot.

I work hard and do everything to make sure I am in the starting line-up.

I’m a goal scorer, so I’m here to score goals, but at the end of the day, I want to help my team-mates reach something, so we are working hard.

The reason I score more and more goals, season after season, is I know my mistakes from the past, I know my strengths, and I work on my strengths, but the little points I want to get better, and it’s constant.

When I was 11 years old, I was playing for the Lierse youth team, and one of the parents from the other team literally tried to stop me from going on the pitch. He was like, ‘How old is this kid? Where is his ID? Where is he from?’

I just want to be good, help my team-mates win the games, and score a lot of goals.

When you see your father playing in the first division, and you see players like Ronaldo with the crowd singing their names, you want that.

I sit next to Drogba in the dressing room. I listen all the time because he gives advice.

Sometimes footballers, we get soft a little bit.

Chelsea and Arsenal tried to sign me when I was 13, 14.

I can do a lot of stuff, score goals with my left, right, and head.

What I would like most is to play in the Champions League and try to win the Premier League once. Or better – a few times.

I started playing when I was 16. Year in, year out, people expect 20 goals from me.

I want to help my team-mates as much as possible.

I would rather have a career where I improve year after year than go to the top and then decline. There are a lot of strikers that reached the top before 25, but after 25, they went down.

I just want to improve and show the people what I can do on the pitch.

I play with Sacha Kljestan, and I talk a lot with him about playing in MLS.

I always said to my friends that I would play for Chelsea one day.

You cannot only be remembered by scoring goals; you want to be remembered by winning trophies.

The first thing I do on a Sunday is five hours in front of the TV watching football, football, football. I watch my games back and pick out what didn’t go right and try to make sure it goes well next time.

That’s the state of mind I have – I always want to be better.

I’ll never say it’s good enough. It’s a pressure I put on myself.

At the end of my career, you never know what might happen. I think that a move to MLS… maybe.

He was the main guy at Manchester United, and he’s a guy I really look up to and who I learn from a lot because we share the same agent. Here and there, he sends a bit of advice to me, and it helps me improve. But I’m Romelu Lukaku – I’m not Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

When Manchester United and Jose Mourinho come knocking at the door, it is an opportunity of a lifetime and one that I could not turn down.

At the end of the day, I just want to work hard for the team, and if I improve, I’m really satisfied.

As a young kid, you dream of playing in every big team.

Every player wants to play in the Champions League.

I want my team to be the best. I want my team to be the most attractive to play in the league.

Every striker has to have that edge. When they are not scoring, or when the team is losing, they explode.

I have always been scoring goals, and now the quality of goals I am scoring is better.

I’m Romelu Lukaku. I want to create my own history.

I know I have a lot of talent.