We all know it's hard to have time to come in as a young player - maybe the club and the supporters give you seven, eight, nine games where you're rusty and not performing. It's difficult to do that.

For me, it's about consistently churning out performances and looking to improve at the same time.

It is easy to play well when things are going rosy.

The majority of Chelsea fans have been unbelievable, but there is maybe five per cent always thinking, 'Get the next best thing in.' I feel that.

I've enjoyed success and I feel like I've been a big part of success - not just involved in winning trophies but involved heavily.

The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results.

Frank Lampard was fantastic.

As a defence, we have to strive for that clean sheet while also giving the attacking players the licence to go and create.

I would never try to fill John Terry's boots. You can never fill that position.

It's easy to play football when everything is going well and you are winning games back to back, winning, winning, it's the best feeling ever, you can go out there and express yourself you feel like you are not going to make mistakes.

I am sure for every striker, scoring goals gives them confidence.

I want to play football out on the pitch. I am not different to anyone else and the ambition never changes.

I'd rather do my talking on the pitch.

When you are in a squad, you are looking around to make sure that everyone is focused and feels the same way.

Sometimes when you're at a club like Chelsea you feel sorry when you see a player move on, because naturally some progress and some don't. You don't hear about the ones that don't.

For myself it's about winning competitions.

When things are going well, everyone's coming into training, having a lot of banter and joking about and enjoying things, and when you are not, it's not that feeling, because the expectation level is to win.

I played for England off the back of playing for Bolton so I would like to thank the fans there for making me feel at home for the four years that I played there.

I was told 'you can't play for England, you're at Bolton.' I proved them wrong.

I came to Chelsea and it was 'oh you can't play Champions League, you can't do this, you can't do that' and I proved them wrong.

You want to achieve the most you can in the short period you have in your career as a professional footballer.

When a top club comes calling, who you know will be firing on all fronts with competitions and medals, that's ultimately what you want to be playing for.

When Chelsea came calling for me, it was an opportunity, it was a chance and looking from the outset you may not be sure how it's going to go. But it's one you can't turn down, you have to grab it with both hands. Then you have to work as hard as you can to make it work.

Whatever is going on off the pitch, players relish playing football.

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.

I've got the utmost respect for Azpilicueta as a player and a person.

Every time you come out of the team I know you don't just disappear, you don't just become a bad player overnight.

I'm my worst critic when I'm playing.

This is what playing football is all about - trying to reach finals and trying to lift trophies.

I don't want to be stale.

You get people criticising people who are happy to sit on the bench, picking up money.

It has always been in my make up to play a high percentage of games.

I realise that sometimes things go well and sometimes they don't. But it is very important for me I feel personally, even selfishly, the need to be playing football matches.

Not every single minute of your career will go well, individually and collectively, and not every season will go how you want it to, but it's how you react to that.

You're not a robot, you're not going to be nine out of 10 every game. But when things aren't going well, you work even harder and look for a reaction.

For sure I want to achieve records.

Players at the highest level have got high football intelligence, so they can adapt, but at the same time you need a structure and an idea of how you've got to play that system.

It is difficult to click your fingers and say, 'Right, go and play that formation now.'

The way that I prepare, the way that I play, the way that I like to speak to the lads or manage situations is the way that I do things.

I have been my own man. I feel like I can be me but I have obviously learned from the best.

When I was growing up I would always watch the more experienced players to see what they were doing and why they were doing it.

To be captain of such a huge club like Chelsea is a great personal achievement.

Diego Costa is Diego Costa. He scores goals. He is an animated character and he is a big personality.

Every season I think it's right every great team tries to improve the quality of the team.

As players we are in control of what we do and the way we prepare for the games.

There's opportunities you get that you want to grasp with both hands and you have to cherish them.

When you get a little knockback in your career, it gives you something to strive for.

Martin O'Neill let me go and he obviously felt that was the right thing at the time. But you go on and want to prove people wrong.

Work hard at your game and then you will progress.

It's difficult to play in a new formation and have everyone grasp it straight away.