70 Quotes by Lukas Podolski

When you come from Poland, you have nothing. Your mother and father are working. You have only a bed for sleep. You have a kitchen, and that's it. You must fight.

It was tough for my family. My father was working; my mother was working. Sometimes I was alone at home after leaving school.

Cologne was my big team, my favourite team. I trained one week in Cologne, and they asked me to sign for Cologne. At 17 or 18, the coach asked me to go the first-team training ground. I was lucky to have that coach.

When you go to a club and always sit on the bench and look at the team, it is not easy.

I know I have a left foot that was probably gifted to me by God, or someone up there, and I can always rely on it.

I think Arsenal would be good for a German coach.

Mr. Wenger could have moved on to another club, I am sure, but instead chose to stay and build something over the long term. He lives and dies by his own ideas, and Arsenal is his baby.

Back home in Germany, football people think very highly of Arsene Wenger. They listen to what he has to say and admire his achievements.

For me, respect is important.