Romelu Lukaku Quotes

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.

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

In college, I was making a lot of presnap reads. It was much easier.

There's a lot of things that go into scoring touchdowns and leading your team. It's not just the game itself, but going back and studying tape to pick apart everything I did. It's nice to have something to go on, doing it full speed in a game situation.

I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.

With TV, it's the same way as preparing for the game of football. To get better at football, you have to watch the film and watch those who came before you and played the game, and yes, the first year you come in as a rookie and you're not gonna be as good as when you come in as a vet, and I applied that in the same way to 'Ton of Cash.'

Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is.

Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.

That is probably the best thing to do: look back on the harder games you've had, the tougher games, learn what I didn't do well and what I could have done better.

It's always fun to play against the best players. That's how you improve yourself.

I try to watch film with teammates and help them as well, so that's just part of the game, part of playing.

I'm watching a lot of film to see what I can do differently, to see how I can help when I get in the game.

Football is made up of episodes.

I don't mind if my performances get dissected and people criticise what I've done on the pitch. They can talk about my game 24/7 for all I care. And a lot of those opinions and criticisms may actually be right. So I don't mind that.

I love watching game tape. I can do it all day long and enjoy every minute of it.

Coaching was always intriguing to me as a kid. Watching 'Monday Night Football' with my dad and hearing him talk through the game management and watching the Tom Landrys and Don Shulas on the sideline was more intriguing to me than watching Troy Aikman or Dan Marino throw the ball.

Diego Costa is a good example. He's doing very well, and he's arguably one of the best strikers in the world, so I have to see what he does and add it to my game.

I analyse my games for club and country. I look at what I could have done better and learn.

When you get traded, the first thing you have to do is self-reflect and think about how you can get better. It has only helped me become a better player and think the game through.

When you know how to read football, it is easier for some players.

You always try to take the positives and negatives out of the game.

The only thing that we can do is to work on all the aspects of our game.