I just wanted to play baseball because I liked baseball. I never was giving up on football.
I've grown over the years and I know how to adapt to situations, where I can go into a situation where there's a crowd of people and just take over. But pretty much I'm off to myself. And I'm totally committed to the game of football. That's why I've had so much success.
I am a professional footballer and as long as I'm able to make a contribution, I'll be doing all I can to stay at the top.
Lukaku sees football and lives for his game the way I think a top player should live for it.
I am a massive fan of Wayne Rooney, and it is nice to see him play in any position because he gives a 100 per cent. Not many players can do that and say they do that.
Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.
Everton fans don't just come to watch the football. They are there for Everton, the club. They really believe in the history of the club.
I would never close the door on any job because I like to work, I like football.
These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.
I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. There was a five-a-side next to the flat, and I used to play there all the time. It was all about football. I wanted to be a professional. That was my goal. I didn't want to be anything other than a footballer.
I work for the BBC now. I do it because I genuinely love football.
We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
If I can push myself up to the 2018 World Cup, then I'll go on. After that, I'll close the door and stop playing football.
I was such a big football fan in general, I just watched as many games as I could and I picked up things from every game.
Trust me, you cannot love football any more than I do.
Kids want to be professional footballers and I think they need to know what it takes to get there - you know, the dedication. People see footballers playing on a Saturday afternoon in front of the TV cameras, but from a Monday to Friday people don't really see what goes on.
I'm going to keep loving football. That's one thing I'm most proud of: my hunger and desire for the game has not stopped.
I'm confident I can show exactly what I'm about, how much I care about football, and how I'd do anything to win.
I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.
I feel 21. I've looked after myself and take my football seriously.
I've played this game since I was in second grade, and there's nothing more important to me than playing football.
I chose to leave my wife at the hospital after prematurely birthing our first baby due to incompetent cervix, which resulted in a fatality, to play in a football game. I felt like I had to prove to my coaches and new team that I was dedicated to winning and I wouldn't let anything keep me from that goal, not even my family.
My early ambitions were the same as they are now - to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.
My life has changed, but I'm not money-motivated at all; that's the last thing on my mind. I just want to play football, and that's how I've always been.
You have to sacrifice time with your family, your time as a teenager. You don't experience life like any other, outside of football. When you go to uni, you can't live the uni lifestyle. But I've never, ever thought about quitting football.
