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I'm used to playing under pressure. In the Premier League, there are big players and big teams - we are used to it.
I have to make sure I stay focused and have the same ambition I've always had and work hard - that's the key to success.
Obviously, the World Cup is nice and the Euros is really nice as well, but I have always dreamed of the Champions League.
What I would like most is to play in the Champions League and try to win the Premier League once. Or better - a few times.
At Manchester United, we play to win. That's my first mentality when I get onto the pitch. Then everything else comes with it.
I want to prove to other people that I have something in my mind and intellectual qualities, not just the ability to play football.
I ensure I am focused throughout the game, whether that is making a chance for myself or receiving the ball from a teammate to score.
Football is all about having fun - but playing to win at the same time. When you find the right balance, there's so much more to enjoy.
I was always a striker ever since I was a little boy. I always wanted to put the ball in the net and have the feeling of scoring a goal.
Football is what, 15 years? I want to invest 100% of my life into the game, so when it's all said and done, I don't want to have regrets.
When Manchester United and Jose Mourinho come knocking at the door, it is an opportunity of a lifetime and one that I could not turn down.
The billions watching and following the Premier League don't tune in to see you in training. They want to know what you can do in a match.
When you see your father playing in the first division, and you see players like Ronaldo with the crowd singing their names, you want that.
I'm a goal scorer, so I'm here to score goals, but at the end of the day, I want to help my team-mates reach something, so we are working hard.
In football, anything can happen. You can have an injury, and then you won't play at the highest level anymore. If you don't have a diploma, what then?
People want to see you on the pitch. That was why I left Chelsea. I didn't want to hear people saying, 'Hey, he's doing well in training, blah blah blah... ' The game is what counts.
I would rather have a career where I improve year after year than go to the top and then decline. There are a lot of strikers that reached the top before 25, but after 25, they went down.
I used to run to school with my brother Jordan. It was two or three miles there and back. We'd do it every day. My parents didn't have the money to buy us bikes. It was nice; we enjoyed it.
For me, family has always been more important than football. The most important thing for me is that my parents and my brother are fine. That is the first thing on my mind when I wake up every day.
The first thing I do on a Sunday is five hours in front of the TV watching football, football, football. I watch my games back and pick out what didn't go right and try to make sure it goes well next time.
The reason I score more and more goals, season after season, is I know my mistakes from the past, I know my strengths, and I work on my strengths, but the little points I want to get better, and it's constant.
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.
When I was 11 years old, I was playing for the Lierse youth team, and one of the parents from the other team literally tried to stop me from going on the pitch. He was like, 'How old is this kid? Where is his ID? Where is he from?'
He was the main guy at Manchester United, and he's a guy I really look up to and who I learn from a lot because we share the same agent. Here and there, he sends a bit of advice to me, and it helps me improve. But I'm Romelu Lukaku - I'm not Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
When younger, I was tall but very skinny. When I was 14, I grew and started gaining muscles. So I started doing sit-ups, abs work, press-ups, strengthening my core. I'd do 100-150 reps each day. I knew if my core was strong enough, I would get fewer muscle injuries.
I started playing at six. I was at a school always playing football with my friends. But I was always bored at home. I asked my father if he could start me in a football team. He took me to a team called Rupel Boom, who were playing in the fourth division in Belgium, and I stayed there for four years.