Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.

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I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

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Work Smile Mom

You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.

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Smile Sad You

I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.

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UN Till Take

The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal - they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.

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Understand UN Totally

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

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Time Good Young

I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.

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Good Yin T

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.

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You Us Try

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

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Time Positive Yourself

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.

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Art Would Win

For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.

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Good Freedom Together

When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

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Family Art Age

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

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Ways Way Treat

We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game.

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Good Win Very

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

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Who Things Thing

I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.

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Good Chance You

I love to set up my teammates. I am not here to be a star, to show off. I am here to play for the others, but if I have to try and clinch a game, then I will.

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Love Will Up

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.

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Good Alone Wit

The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.

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Up Thing Thin

My first trophy in France was the Young Player of the Year. I was 17. Chelsea is not just one player. It is not only me. We have signed a lot of players. Now we have some good signings like Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa.

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Good Young You

I love cooking. There is nothing I like better than going home and cooking my family a nice meal. Anything with pasta! Pasta with butter! I have a good repertoire, and I can do quite a few different dishes. Sometimes they work out and sometimes not.

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Work Time Love

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'.

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When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.

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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.

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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.

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I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

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It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!

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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

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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.

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Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.

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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

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If I ever leave, it'll be after winning a championship. You need to go out on a high so that people remember you for the right reasons.

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I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.

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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.

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We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.

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When I get the ball with my back to goal, I like to be in touching contact. I need to feel the guy. He will try to take the ball, and I will go past him.

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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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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

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

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When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.

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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.

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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.

Eden Hazard

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.

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The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.

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

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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

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For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi-finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.

Eden Hazard

Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.

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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.

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Deep down, I never wanted to see Mourinho fired. We experienced some very beautiful things together in 2015.

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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.

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