Interview Quotes

On Football Philosophy and Player Roles

"Right now, I think position number six. Because you have to find the balance between offensive and defensive. And yeah, the last one, two years, this number makes the difference."

— Robert Lewandowski • 01:24:55

"Pep that time was very, very focused only on the football things. As a human, he was difficult for the players."

— Robert Lewandowski • 01:48:51

"Yeah, he's like a father, you know. He can come to you and say, why are you not so happy? And he's like uncle, you know, so you can talk with him about everything."

— Robert Lewandowski • 02:12:54

"He never asked me about nothing. He told me, Levy, I cannot help you because you are better than me. You know better how to finish the situation, how to finish the action, but I can help you how to bring the ball to you."

— Robert Lewandowski • 03:05:15

"Boys, boys, boys, sit, sit, sit, boys, boys, sit, sit, sit, listen, listen, listen. And we are, what's going on? You know, we are here, okay. We are just, forget everything what we did last week. And we, what? We're playing like this."

— Robert Lewandowski • 03:48:03

"You trust him. Yeah. You, if he provides some kind of tactic, you take this, even from the first, for the first things you say. It's crazy, but after, I don't know, a few weeks, you didn't think about this. Because you know it, that you can trust him."

— Robert Lewandowski • 04:18:55

"I'm between. I'm not, I'm not happy if I don't touch the ball, you know, even that I score the goal and I finish well, that I, I got brilliant pass and sometimes, you know, I just touch the ball and it's inside the goal, but I'm not with, involved in the game, you know."

— Robert Lewandowski • 05:34:59

On Mentality and Career Development

"Yeah, because not only physically, but also flexibility, you know, because in judo you have to be flexible, you have to know how to hand, shoot, to go, you know."

— Robert Lewandowski • 07:44:15

"I have to say that I was starting thinking about this, to playing longer on the top level when I was 22 to 23 years old."

— Robert Lewandowski • 08:54:29

"And I learned a lot in Barcelona, for example, that I saw the young players, I see them and on the beginning, I was asking myself, I should to tell them that the football sometimes looks different, or maybe I should to take what they have good, what they have really, like the positive things from football to take from my side."

— Robert Lewandowski • 10:30:16

"But I always try to, to give him maybe some kind of advice that from one side it's amazing what he did, what he's doing, but also you have to thinking that soon for him will be the huge challenge to stay on this level or maybe do the next step."

— Robert Lewandowski • 12:20:47

"I think that for the new generation that if they want to play football on the high level, playing for the long time, that the social media and also the mentality, I would be very tough. I think that they will be almost impossible to play more than 10 years in the top level."

— Robert Lewandowski • 13:15:57

"He can take from the players the things that, even the players that they don't think that they can play on this kind of level, you know."

— Robert Lewandowski • 14:35:23

"And I remember exactly that the players before the game, more defender, so it was like that, come on, you're going for the game, you're fighting here, we're doing, but the first minutes that you couldn't control the ball because you were so motivated, but over motivated."

— Robert Lewandowski • 15:36:08

"But after this conversation was, it was important that about what we are talking for me was more important that he talked to me that way that for me was like, I was speaking with my father."

— Robert Lewandowski • 17:11:50

"I always remember when I competed with Sergio Ramos, you know, this against him to play was like a huge challenge, you know."

— Robert Lewandowski • 06:55:16

On Personal Achievements and Rivalries

"Playing in the era of Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi. And of course I can, I can talk about the, the, the, the success of the team, like the champions league, like in the one season we, we won like everything, everything."

— Robert Lewandowski • 18:24:24

"You know, sometimes you have this kind of feeling that you are only some people have that. Yeah. But from the another way or another side, you have to, you have to stay on the ground, you know, you cannot thinking that you are like superhero and everything."

— Robert Lewandowski • 19:15:48

"At that time, I didn't understand why, because every league was playing, Champions League was playing. And that was like for me, whoa, why? I know how football works sometimes, politics also, because if you have football, you have business, if you have business, you have politics and everything working, money in the end, of course."

— Robert Lewandowski • 20:06:43

"I use them, yeah. I use them for sure to, not only inspiration, but to try… To drive yourself. Not to beat them, but to beat some kind of records, goals, the level that I achieve."

— Robert Lewandowski • 21:49:54

"Okay. Okay. Well, okay. Ribéry. His prime was amazing. He never liked to score the goals."

— Robert Lewandowski • 22:56:10

"I decided to join to Manchester United. What year, what year? 2012. I was there. Yeah."

— Robert Lewandowski • 25:53:33

"Yeah, Ribéry and Robben again, back together again. Even he didn't like to play pass, you know. He's selfish, yeah."

— Robert Lewandowski • 26:54:01

"Prime of Boateng. He had, he had everything, you know, because he was strong, left foot, right foot with the ball amazing. He was also fast, but this guy, this prime was, I was very impressed that they won also World Cup. Boateng, yeah, the prime of Boateng was, was, was for me, like, amazing."

— Robert Lewandowski • 29:35:17