Frank Lampard Quotations

I like to go to America. That's where I go for most of my holidays.

I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.

Of course it is going to be difficult for any player to get in the Chelsea side no matter who they are.

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering whos performing better, you take your eye off the ball.

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.

I think it was in Moscow last year and I got changed for training the day before we played Moscow, but the fact is they actually wanted to do John's, me and John were next to each other and they did mine by mistake. John had done them I think. So yeah it is true.

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

When I was at school, I wanted to be a lawyer.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.

Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way.

I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.

To be honest, I was Mum's boy. Always was, always will be.

Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.

I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.

I am certainly not the most talented player in the world; there's many a more talented player than me.

I've enjoyed every minute of travelling and playing for my country. What an honour that is.

If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I'll try to do that for as long as I can.

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special.

I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG' on the iPad the other day and it was so interesting to see his descriptions of clothes and places.

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.

For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.

I'm not silly. I understand that, with age and at different parts of your career, you have different challenges.

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side.

I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic.

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

Scoring goals is the best feeling you can have. I always look up at the stand for my family straight afterwards; it means everything to me that they travel to every game.

The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.

I come from a football family which has really helped.

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now.

I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.

I have a lot of good football talk with cabbies, but when you want to get somewhere in a hurry, it can be distracting. I always know they're going to want to talk football if 'Talksport' is on the radio.

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

We know we're not quite there yet, last year was a fantastic day for us here. It was a big step towards winning it today. We're the ones nine points clear and as long as we do our job we're going to win the league. We got the result, we're nearly there.

We've taken a bit of stick and I think no one has criticized us as much as ourselves by our recent performances, ... We thought we improved against Austria and today we wanted to play with a lot of pace in our game, a lot of attacking verve. We were unfortunate not to score a few more goals.

We were concerned because no one wants to go 1-0 down at home, but it was always going to happen. We were always going to concede at some stage and it was about our reaction, which was spot on.

The pitch will be full of players who are capable of changing the course of the game.

The pitch was as bad as it has ever been and we were getting frustrated.

I wouldn't say what was said got under our skin. There were things said before the last Champions League game and we felt we had been talked about it a bad way. But we put it right in the league game up there which is the main place to do your talking.

There are obviously great English players in the Premier League, and there have been so many fantastic foreigners too. They have brought such a great aspect to the game, are really enjoyable and exciting to watch, and that is one of the reasons why we have got such an exciting league.

John has had a similar problem for some time and his looks worse than mine.

It is a case of putting it to the back of your mind but equally don't forget what you learned from it. But it is a real kick up the backside for each individual and the squad as whole.

It is great to be recognised by your fellow players - the awards you really crave are from them.

I was desperate to get that record but I want to get more goals now. I want to reach 20 goals for the first time.

It has been best week of my life. This has put the icing on it. I am so proud.

Last season when Arjen Robben was out injured it was a nightmare for us because we didn't have a solution. But this season it's no problem. We have that solution,

Liverpool's strength in the Champions League last season was not conceding goals away from home. Maybe in the league they'll come out a bit more. Winning is more of a necessity for them.

I won't be thinking about the last game, so it won't affect them. They'll reflect on the good results.

The anticipation of the World Cup is building more and more with every week now. As the season goes on, it becomes sharper in your mind and you can't help but start to get excited about it.

We played very well at the weekend and when we do it is hard for teams to beat us because we have a lot of quality in the side,

We got the result and we're nearly there. I think we probably need to win two games and we are going to try to do that.

We're through. It means everything. We got very close last year but this year we want to go all the way.

Those records are great but we're not thinking about the home record going. We're just thinking about how we're going to put it right. It's up to us.

We want to do it as soon as we can. It will be a very tough game and we are not thinking we have won it yet.

You get to the stage where every little bit of criticism that comes to you, you use to make you stronger, ... We get it from a lot of angles now and we hope to answer it by success.

A big deal was made about one game. There's a lot of football on TV but we still get a lot of full houses. We get great support and a lot of teams up and down the country get it as well.

It should not matter where he comes from. Just someone to win matches.

It was a big step towards winning it today. We got the result, we're nearly there.

I rate him very highly, right at the very top. He's a fantastic midfielder with a real all-round game.

Hopefully, we will win tonight and so reach the Champions League final. If that happens and I have the foot done straight afterwards, that would rule me out of the England tour,

The ultimate goal is to have the right formation by the time the tournament comes around and we will hopefully get it right, no matter how we line up.

That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate.

Having grown up watching Barcelona, Elen gets a bit annoyed watching me if I don't do flicks and tricks like Ronaldinho. I have to explain you can't do that all the time in a game!

There's a few ugly ones. Carlo is probably the best looking [on chelsea players]

There is such a belief in the squad that we could really do something.

Eden Hazard is a great player. He has magic

When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.

I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up

Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years

But we have the players, as we have shown against good opposition this season, we're an extremely difficult side to live with at home. (on Chelsea)

As far as I see it you just can't give Messi space in the dangerous areas - we have to close him down, get tight and give him as little room as we can because if you don't, he can destroy you.

I think when you have spent the money that we have, it's bound to bring it's own pressure. The players have shown that they can handle that though. (on Chelsea)

They're a very offensive team and even without Thierry Henry they can still do damage to you all over the pitch. (on Arsenal)

But to be fair, Arsenal are a quality side. They're not where they are by chance - they are not top of the league and unbeaten because they are a bad team.

When you look at the caliber of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone?

But what club wouldn't welcome the chance to strengthen their side, what club would turn down the resources Chelsea have?