Top 70 Frank Lampard Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.”

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

3. “I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I’m on a run of games.”

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

5. “I never relax on the year before. Every year I want to get more out of myself so I use it as a driving force, rather than a pressure thing.”

— Frank Lampard

6. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

8. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

10. “Everyone’s got unfinished business with Barcelona. They’re the greatest team in the world.”

— Frank Lampard

11. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

12. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

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.”

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

15. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

16. “If I could have been anyone in the world, it would have been Ronaldinho. He’s fantastic, I love watching him.”

— Frank Lampard

17. “To be honest, I was Mum’s boy. Always was, always will be.”

— Frank Lampard

18. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

19. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

20. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

21. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

24. “If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That’s the way it is.”

— Frank Lampard

25. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

26. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

27. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

28. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

29. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

31. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

33. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

36. “In a way, I’ve thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.”

— Frank Lampard

37. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

38. “Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let’s put it that way.”

— Frank Lampard

39. “But what club wouldn’t welcome the chance to strengthen their side, what club would turn down the resources Chelsea have?”

— Frank Lampard

40. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

41. “I like to go to America. That’s where I go for most of my holidays.”

— Frank Lampard

42. “I’m like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it’s not possible.”

— Frank Lampard

43. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

45. “The title is still on the cards until it’s off the cards.”

— Frank Lampard

46. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

47. “There’s so many kids out there and it’s such a cut-throat world. I’ve seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they’re not in football now.”

— Frank Lampard

48. “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.”

— Frank Lampard

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

— Frank Lampard

50. “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.”

— Frank Lampard