Romelu Lukaku Quotes

The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.

The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

As a goalkeeper, you've got to have mental toughness, and that's one thing I'm good at.

When you have experienced players, you don't tremble when it comes to playing in a hostile atmosphere or under pressure.

Been dealing with pressure since I've been playing sports, so that's why I play the position. It's a pressure-packed position and I love it.

One of the main things that stand out for me is the mentality of the best players. They really want to be in those big moments, have the responsibility, the trust in themselves and the self-belief.

We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'

I work better under pressure. I was the local badminton champion when I was a kid, and there was another girl who used to thrash me for the five days leading up to the tournament and then I would just nail her to the floor in the competition.

Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.

I always say that mentality is a crucial aspect in a football environment.

As a competitor, as an athlete, you want the ball to come to you.

I think there is no better way for our players to improve and learn to perform under pressure than playing regularly with India.

I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.

Each game, each series, there's so many different things that are going on and you have to find different ways to impact winning.

Cain Velasquez, he has some technical difficulties, but he has ambition, and he's fearless. He wants to win so badly, and he's in great condition. He's a thinking fighter.

Being able to adjust - to any fighter, no matter what pressure he can give me - I'm going to show I can do all that.

When I put my helmet on, I'm ultra competitive, talking trash.

Being solid in your own zone, being a good faceoff guy, those are things that are all important as you go deep in the playoffs.

What a footballer wants above all else is to win, regardless of who the coach is.

I've just always played with a big chip on my shoulder, and that keeps fueling me.

As a striker, you always try to convert your chances, give everything when training.

I was how I was in college because I had to be. I played angry. I played hard. I stepped on guys' chests, I hit a game-winner against UConn.

It doesn't matter how you're playing: you've got to be vocal - you've got to be aggressive - if you really want to be one of the best in this league.