“If you don’t have ambition to be one of the best, someone will always come and take your place.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I’ve always had and work hard – that’s the key to success.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“When you’re not happy, you don’t need to fake your emotions.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I wanted to be the best footballer in Belgian history. That was my goal. Not good. Not great. The best.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Football is all about having fun – but playing to win at the same time. When you find the right balance, there’s so much more to enjoy.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Hard work eliminates fear. That’s how I think.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“If you want to be one of the best, you have to look at the best.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“My physique? It is a gift from God.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Sometimes footballers, we get soft a little bit.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Football is what, 15 years? I want to invest 100% of my life into the game, so when it’s all said and done, I don’t want to have regrets.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I want to help my team-mates as much as possible.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“If you weren’t with me when I had nothing, then you can’t really understand me.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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?’”
― Romelu Lukaku
“When we were kids, we couldn’t even afford to watch Thierry Henry on Match of the Day.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I always said I wanted to play for a team that’s challenging for every trophy that there is there.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I sit next to Drogba in the dressing room. I listen all the time because he gives advice.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I am going to work hard in training and give it my all.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I’ve always had a goal to win as many trophies as I can and to play for a club like Manchester United.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Drogba is more of a hold-up player, a target man. I prefer to have ball to feet and run in behind.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I’m Romelu Lukaku. I want to create my own history.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I’ve been working to be a pro since I was 11 years old.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“At Manchester United, we play to win. That’s my first mentality when I get onto the pitch. Then everything else comes with it.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Every striker has to have that edge. When they are not scoring, or when the team is losing, they explode.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“People used to talk to me about that and say, ‘Rom doesn’t play with passion.’ I do, but I don’t show it too much because in my mind, I’m a guy that thinks a lot about how to win the game. Sometimes I let the emotions just come now, and it helps me.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I love English, Spanish, and German football.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I know I have a lot of talent.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I want to make sure when my team is having difficulties, they can count on me.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I can do a lot of stuff, score goals with my left, right, and head.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I just want to be good, help my team-mates win the games, and score a lot of goals.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I started playing at six. I was at a school always playing football with my friends. But I was always bored at home. I asked my father if he could start me in a football team. He took me to a team called Rupel Boom, who were playing in the fourth division in Belgium, and I stayed there for four years.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I was always a striker ever since I was a little boy. I always wanted to put the ball in the net and have the feeling of scoring a goal.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I looked up to Cristiano Ronaldo, and then it was always Didier Drogba.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Ever since I was six or seven, I wanted to be a professional footballer.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Chelsea and Arsenal tried to sign me when I was 13, 14.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Chelsea is my favourite team. I have always said it, and I have never hidden it.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“As a young kid, you dream of playing in every big team.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“My father was my hero when I was still a boy.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I give my best every day in training and in games; this is the only way that I know how to play football.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I think I’ve proven that I’ve improved every part of my game.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I have always been scoring goals, and now the quality of goals I am scoring is better.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“At the end of my career, you never know what might happen. I think that a move to MLS… maybe.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I play with Sacha Kljestan, and I talk a lot with him about playing in MLS.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I live day by day.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“A move to MLS – you never know. New York or Los Angeles, you never know.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“That’s the state of mind I have – I always want to be better.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I just want to become the best player I can be.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I’ll never say it’s good enough. It’s a pressure I put on myself.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“When you play for United, you have to perform every week.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“For me, football is not about money – I want to win prizes.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I try to remain calm and treat my club with respect.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“In football, anything can happen. You can have an injury, and then you won’t play at the highest level anymore. If you don’t have a diploma, what then?”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I want to prove to other people that I have something in my mind and intellectual qualities, not just the ability to play football.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I’m very fast, I’m very strong, and I work a lot.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I don’t dive. I’m not a player who dives.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I started playing when I was 16. Year in, year out, people expect 20 goals from me.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I just want to improve and show the people what I can do on the pitch.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“As long as I win and lead my team to winning, that’s when I will be really satisfied.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“As a football player, I don’t play for the individual.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“You have to be patient in the Premier League.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I work hard and do everything to make sure I am in the starting line-up.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I don’t like to look at what other players are doing.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“It’s about winning games and scoring as many goals as possible.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“If you can’t play under pressure, you shouldn’t be at a World Cup.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I’m used to playing under pressure. In the Premier League, there are big players and big teams – we are used to it.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Every player wants to play in the Champions League.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Every player wants to play at the highest level.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“You have to be ambitious in life.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“When you do well for a team like Everton, it’s easier to go into a top team and establish yourself.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I don’t touch anything I don’t deserve.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“At the end of the day, I just want to work hard for the team, and if I improve, I’m really satisfied.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I always said to my friends that I would play for Chelsea one day.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“There is no denying that the English league is perfect for me, but there are nice clubs elsewhere, too.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“As a youngster, you normally have to play. How will you be one of the best not playing?”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Personally, I don’t let my head go down; I just keep working hard.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“If I don’t score, I try to give an assist; if I do score, I try to give an assist and score another.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“When you score, you are a hero.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I used to run to school with my brother Jordan. It was two or three miles there and back. We’d do it every day. My parents didn’t have the money to buy us bikes. It was nice; we enjoyed it.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I’m the strongest dude you’re ever going to meet.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Everton as a football club has a great history.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“No matter where you play, you want to be remembered.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“You cannot only be remembered by scoring goals; you want to be remembered by winning trophies.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I want my team to be the best. I want my team to be the most attractive to play in the league.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“My father has always been a big influence in my life.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“For me, family has always been more important than football. The most important thing for me is that my parents and my brother are fine. That is the first thing on my mind when I wake up every day.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“Obviously, the World Cup is nice and the Euros is really nice as well, but I have always dreamed of the Champions League.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I’m not a selfish guy.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I feel a lot of people working in the media don’t know how much of a student of the game I am. They don’t know that if we play on a Saturday, the first thing I do when I get home is watch the other games, watch the other leagues.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“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.”
― Romelu Lukaku
“I never lift weights.”
― Romelu Lukaku
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