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.

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

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.

For sure I want to achieve records.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I don't want to be stale.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

For myself it's about winning competitions.