Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Romelu Lukaku

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

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

My father was my hero when I was still a boy.

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.

When we were kids, we couldn't even afford to watch Thierry Henry on Match of the Day.

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

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.

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?

I just want to become the best player I can be.

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.

Ever since I was six or seven, I wanted to be a professional footballer.

My physique? It is a gift from God.

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

When you do well for a team like Everton, it's easier to go into a top team and establish yourself.

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

That's the state of mind I have - I always want to be better.

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.

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

When you play for United, you have to perform every week.

I love English, Spanish, and German football.

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

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

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

I don't dive. I'm not a player who dives.

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.

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

I try to remain calm and treat my club with respect.

If you want to be one of the best, you have to look at the best.

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.

If you weren't with me when I had nothing, then you can't really understand me.

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

Sometimes footballers, we get soft a little bit.

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.

For me, football is not about money - I want to win prizes.

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

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 give my best every day in training and in games; this is the only way that I know how to play football.

I am going to work hard in training and give it my all.

I think I've proven that I've improved every part of my game.

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

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

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

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

Drogba is more of a hold-up player, a target man. I prefer to have ball to feet and run in behind.

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

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

I know I have a lot of talent.

I want to make sure when my team is having difficulties, they can count on me.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Chelsea is my favourite team. I have always said it, and I have never hidden it.

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

I looked up to Cristiano Ronaldo, and then it was always Didier Drogba.

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

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