Frank Lampard Quotes

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)

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

Eden Hazard is a great player. He has
magic

Remember every team wants to beat Chelsea, probably even more than Manchester United or Arsenal because they believe we have an unfair advantage.

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.

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.

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

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.

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

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 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.

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.

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 who's performing better, you take your eye off the ball.

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

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

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!

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The title is still on the cards until it's off the cards

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 think every player enjoys praise and I have to work extremely hard on the training ground to bring my game together.

Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.

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.

Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult.

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

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