There's opportunities you get that you want to grasp with both hands and you have to cherish them.
Gary Cahill
Every experience, good or bad, is a learning process.
I've got the utmost respect for Azpilicueta as a player and a person.
Hopefully, I've got rid of the question marks over whether I can play at the top level.
I have been my own man. I feel like I can be me but I have obviously learned from the best.
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.
For sure I want to achieve records.
It's always difficult not playing games and that match fitness and sharpness is something you always lack when you don't get that opportunity.
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.
If you can play effective counter-attacking football, as you see in the Premier League, it's very effective.
I have been hugely honoured to have played for my country and I would never shut the door.
It is difficult to click your fingers and say, 'Right, go and play that formation now.'
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 want to play football out on the pitch. I am not different to anyone else and the ambition never changes.
Work hard at your game and then you will progress.
You get people criticising people who are happy to sit on the bench, picking up money.
It's all about playing. Your career's short enough as it is.
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.
I know when I'm good and when there are a few things I need to iron out.
I've played in the big games and I've done well.
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.
Whatever is going on off the pitch, players relish playing football.
The scary thing about blood clots is where they can lead.
Playing at a club like Chelsea and being given the opportunity to play with the world-class players that we have means you can learn from them and improve your game.
There are challenges in front of you that you face all the time in football. You ride through and come out the other end.
Every season I think it's right every great team tries to improve the quality of the team.
You expect to have to soak up some pressure when you are playing Manchester City away from home.
I'm human. I want to play, I want to perform well.
Having people doubt you is what gives you that fire in your belly.
I'd rather do my talking on the pitch.
Any moment that you have the opportunity to wear the armband for your country is amazing.
I always think the same: English players don't generally leave England, which is strange. But of course, the Premier League's got the reputation as one of best leagues going, and one of the most competitive leagues.
Diego Costa is Diego Costa. He scores goals. He is an animated character and he is a big personality.
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.
My best World Cup memory as a fan? The Michael Owen goal against Argentina at the 1998 World Cup in France.
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.
Rafa Benitez was keen on defending - all dropping back together if you lose the ball.
It is easy to play well when things are going rosy.
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.
As a defence, we have to strive for that clean sheet while also giving the attacking players the licence to go and create.
This is what playing football is all about - trying to reach finals and trying to lift trophies.
I have been hugely proud in terms of what I have achieved, in terms of over 60 caps, and I have captained my country on a few occasions which has been a huge honour and something I have been really proud of in my career.
Frank Lampard was fantastic.
Everything gradually comes to an end or there's a new challenge around the corner.
The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results.
I would never try to fill John Terry's boots. You can never fill that position.
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's difficult to play in a new formation and have everyone grasp it straight away.
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.
When you think of Bolton you think of the likes of Kevin Davies. He is a captain who leads by example and his qualities got him an England cap.
