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" When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game. "

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" I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy. "

" With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year. "

" At 21, Real Madrid or Barcelona would have been more difficult for me. If I play well enough at Chelsea, I could win my place in the starting team, and my priority is to play. "

" The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams. "

" I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season. "

" I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things. "

" For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good. "

" Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change. "

" The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game. "

" I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top. "

" I'd played some very good games, at Manchester United, at Tottenham Hotspur, but they'd lacked a goal. There've been times when I could have scored myself, but I've played a pass to a team-mate instead. "

" I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself. "

" I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games. "

" Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing. "

" A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet. "

" You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives. "

" It is always good to be on the scoresheet. "

" With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed - the language, the country - but it is up to me to adapt. "

" I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself. "

" It is good, it is better to be voted by the players - they know everything about football. "

" If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone. But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football. "

" I try to be this kind of player: the type who does something whenever he gets the ball. Sometimes in the past, I've gone through games where I've not touched the ball for 20 or 30 minutes. "

" The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character. "

" People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to. "

" People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'. "

" I don't need to speak about N'Golo; everyone knows about him. He's everywhere. I think, sometimes when I'm on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I'm playing with twins! "

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