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.
Petr Cech
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.
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.
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.
As a player, you try your best to make things happen, and the rest is up to others.
All managers have a different playing style and football philosophy. What's important for players is being able adapt to those different styles.
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.
As a player, it's better to wait a moment for the correct call than be let down by an incorrect call.
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.
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.
I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.
One day, if I feel the fear of putting my head in the middle of some battle or scrum, then I stop.
Every team needs people who guide you through the difficult moments.
The big teams are about the Champions League.
Every summer is important. If you have a bad summer, it can have consequences for the whole season. If you don't get people to rest and to have a very good pre-season, you can start the season chasing.
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.
Sometimes I think it is best if, after a big game, you play another big game.
There are so many things that a goalkeeper coming to the Premier League has not experienced in a different league.
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.
I've played under different managers, different styles, and most of my career, I was asked to play long.
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.
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.
There is always a lot of pressure at Chelsea, but we are used to this and have to make sure we keep winning games.
It is always great to be a position like this, where you play for everything because it is so exciting.
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 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.
I know I could be a goalkeeper coach - I feel I am better suited to be a manager.
It's always better if you have one manager for a long period because then you can build the team.
When you make a mistake, you have to admit it.
Young Petr Cech was sports mad, football mad.
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.
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.
Jose Mourinho doesn't have a magic wand, and you wave the wand, and everything goes the way you want.
Money has never won anything. You can spend as much as you want, but you must build a team first.
Managers come and go, and first-team coaches and players can leave suddenly.
My favourite language, actually, is Czech, just because it's so colourful. We have so many combinations, words, and expressions. I have to say there are a lot of things which you can say in Czech, but you cannot really translate, because the meaning would make no sense.
When you bring in a player with a big reputation for a big fee, and he's coming from a different championship, and it starts badly, then you can be worried - we had an example of that with Andriy Shevchenko.
It's normal in a top club that people change.
It was my dream to have an opportunity to become a professional player.
