Romelu Lukaku Quotes

I want to win football games.

My father pushed me to be a footballer. At every opportunity, he took me with him to play football. He came with me to matches.

If I am on the pitch then I am happy.

Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I'm still playing now.

I play at Manchester City. I try and give performances for them game after game.

We have many good keepers in Germany, and that's why you can never let your form dip.

I don't drive a truck, I drive a team of footballers who work for a major club like Atleti.

It's great to understand football - it never stops. Since I started playing football, I always learn from every coach. It's great.

I never forget my first emotions in football, in Sicily.

In Mexico, they didn't demand you controlled well, or they didn't get mad because of a bad pass. In La Masia, they demand perfection. Competition is the core principle.

Football is hard to have success. It is tough to do your job.

When I was six, I joined an amateur club called VK Tielrode in Belgium where I lived.

Arsenal is a team that needs good footballers and leaders on the field.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

You would not want me on your football team.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

To say that my dad pushed me is an understatement. I was never naturally drawn to football.

I always wanted to play cricket, and I have played competitive cricket to a fairly good level. I remember that my father used to come and watch me play. He used to love watching me play.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.