Everybody makes mistakes, and I am a human being.

Football is played by 11 players, and unfortunately, every time, it happens that some do well, and some do worse.

In a way, the manager plays as big part, but you, as a player, are on the pitch. He cannot make you run if you don't want to; he cannot make you make the right decision in the heat of the moment.

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

Do I want to play every game? Yes, I want to play every game. But I also understand it's impossible.

Sometimes you need to make sure that, no matter how you do it, you win the games.

When you are going for every trophy, it is always good to have as many points as early as possible in the Champions League, and then you can concentrate on the league and the Carling Cup.

Every summer at a club is important because you have some changes in the squad.

I like people who tell you what they think straight away instead of going around in circles.

I speak five languages, which actually makes it easier when you join a new team. You can settle much quicker because you can help team-mates much faster and better. People need to be careful around me, though - I can understand everything.

Buffon may be a bit smaller, but he has everything that you want from a great goalkeeper. He relays his confidence to his defence, and they feel that they have a great keeper behind them. Everybody can make mistakes, but his consistency level is amazing. You never see him have a bad game.

If a team concedes a goal, then the first question is always of the goalkeeper.

I played tennis a lot when I had the skull injury. For the first two months of my preparation, it was all I could do. It is a great sport for me because it helps my hand-eye coordination, and you need quick feet, which is a good exercise for a keeper.

I had a depressed skull fracture. A few pieces of bone went in quite deep; that was the biggest danger.

Once you're on the pitch, you play for your team, and you want to win. During the year, you can play against friends - you can play against big friends and close friends - but once you are on the pitch, this friendship goes away, and you just focus on winning the game.

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

Chelsea has grown in my heart, not just because of my team-mates and all the people that work for the club but also because of their fantastic fans.

All managers have a different playing style and football philosophy. What's important for players is being able adapt to those different styles.

Once the surgeon said the skull is strong enough with the helmet on, I decided to return to training with the team.

I'm amazed people talk about my helmet - saying it makes me feel psychologically better. I would love to play without it, but I'm not allowed to by the doctor. As long as I'm told by the doctor I'm running too much risk to play without it, I'll play with it. There's no other way for me.

Jose Mourinho doesn't have a magic wand, and you wave the wand, and everything goes the way you want.

Every team needs people who guide you through the difficult moments.

Wenger and Mourinho are different, but there is one thing they have in common, and that is that they do not like defeats. And I think this is the driving force behind the success of both of them.

There are so many things that a goalkeeper coming to the Premier League has not experienced in a different league.

I think, in football, everything goes fast, and as fast as you can go up, you can go down. So basically, every day you work to be ready.

Buffon is fearless and has no obvious weaknesses. He has been outstanding for Juventus and was one of Italy's most important players at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany, where they were victorious, but what is amazing is that he has been playing like that for years. He never seems to make a mistake.

As a player, you try your best to make things happen, and the rest is up to others.

As a player, it's better to wait a moment for the correct call than be let down by an incorrect call.

His ball technique is superb, but most importantly, he can react to how the game develops. At the last possible moment in any situation, he can find the ideal solution. There are a lot of ways that Messi can finish an attack.

I want to be playing, I want to have a chance to compete for my position in the team, and I want to be useful for the team and do the usual stuff on the pitch week in, week out.

For a big club, you can accept that the team does not win the league because it is in transition, but you cannot afford to slip out of the Champions League spot.

Obviously, as long as I enjoy it, I'm fit, and have the desire to work 100 per cent every day with the same motivation, then I want to play.

Young Petr Cech was sports mad, football mad.

Every time Luis Suarez is close, he pushes defenders around.

People always use the word 'obsession' in a negative way, which I'm always amazed by. We are not obsessed in the way that, if we don't win it, we'll just go and shoot ourselves. That's not the case. We are obsessed with the Champions League because this is a great competition to win. In a positive way, we try to search for the victory.

It is always great to be a position like this, where you play for everything because it is so exciting.

I play football, not to only enjoy it - and I love the challenge of playing and competing with the best players - but I want to have the chance to win games.

The big teams are about the Champions League.

As a goalkeeper, Van der Sar can do everything. He is very good at coming off his line, and he is also effective as a libero - what they call in England a 'sweeper keeper.'

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

I gave my first interview when I arrived at Chelsea in 2004, and I had said that it had been my dream to play for one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league in the world - this came true, and I am very pleased my dream will last.

It's the life of the manager: when you make a decision, and the team doesn't win, the pressure comes. But that's part of the life of a manager and footballers as well.

It is a great challenge to be playing against the best players in the world, and I always wanted to play in the Premier League and be a part of this league.

When you make a mistake, you have to admit it.

Now the ambulance is always ready; the paramedics are always ready. People in the crowd can get help without risk. If you look at the Fabrice Muamba case, this is what helped save his life - the paramedics are there.

One day, if I feel the fear of putting my head in the middle of some battle or scrum, then I stop.

You always have years when you go through transition and the side needs to be rebuilt. Or you have changes in terms of managers.

The connection between the Soviet Union and Czech people - or Czech politicians - was very big. It was like a model country for us. But it wasn't the best model, so a lot of Czechs don't like to speak about Russia or the Soviet Union.

Show me a team of the stature of Chelsea, Manchester United, Real Madrid, or Barcelona who is not obsessed with winning the Champions League. If they are not, I'd be surprised why they play in it.

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.