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.

Petr Cech

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.

Petr Cech

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.

Petr Cech

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.

Petr Cech

I had a depressed skull fracture. A few pieces of bone went in quite deep; that was the biggest danger.

Petr Cech

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.

Petr Cech

As a player, you try your best to make things happen, and the rest is up to others.

Petr Cech

All managers have a different playing style and football philosophy. What's important for players is being able adapt to those different styles.

Petr Cech

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.

Petr Cech

As a player, it's better to wait a moment for the correct call than be let down by an incorrect call.

Petr Cech

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.

Petr Cech

Once the surgeon said the skull is strong enough with the helmet on, I decided to return to training with the team.

Petr Cech

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.

Petr Cech

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

Petr Cech

One day, if I feel the fear of putting my head in the middle of some battle or scrum, then I stop.

Petr Cech

Every team needs people who guide you through the difficult moments.

Petr Cech

The big teams are about the Champions League.

Petr Cech

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.

Petr Cech

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.

Petr Cech

Sometimes I think it is best if, after a big game, you play another big game.

Petr Cech