It's difficult to play in a new formation and have everyone grasp it straight away.
— Gary Cahill
When you get a little knockback in your career, it gives you something to strive for.
Every season I think it's right every great team tries to improve the quality of the team.
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.
I would never try to fill John Terry's boots. You can never fill that position.
For sure I want to achieve records.
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.
I don't want to be stale.
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 realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.
When Chelsea came calling for me, it was an opportunity, it was a chance and looking from the outset you may not be sure how it's going to go. But it's one you can't turn down, you have to grab it with both hands. Then you have to work as hard as you can to make it work.
I came to Chelsea and it was 'oh you can't play Champions League, you can't do this, you can't do that' and I proved them wrong.
It is easy to play well when things are going rosy.
It's easy to play football when everything is going well and you are winning games back to back, winning, winning, it's the best feeling ever, you can go out there and express yourself you feel like you are not going to make mistakes.
Sometimes when you're at a club like Chelsea you feel sorry when you see a player move on, because naturally some progress and some don't. You don't hear about the ones that don't.
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.
There's opportunities you get that you want to grasp with both hands and you have to cherish them.
Diego Costa is Diego Costa. He scores goals. He is an animated character and he is a big personality.
I have been my own man. I feel like I can be me but I have obviously learned from the best.
It is difficult to click your fingers and say, 'Right, go and play that formation now.'
You're not a robot, you're not going to be nine out of 10 every game. But when things aren't going well, you work even harder and look for a reaction.
It has always been in my make up to play a high percentage of games.
This is what playing football is all about - trying to reach finals and trying to lift trophies.
I've enjoyed success and I feel like I've been a big part of success - not just involved in winning trophies but involved heavily.
Whatever is going on off the pitch, players relish playing football.
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 was told 'you can't play for England, you're at Bolton.' I proved them wrong.
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.
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.
When you are in a squad, you are looking around to make sure that everyone is focused and feels the same way.
I am sure for every striker, scoring goals gives them confidence.
Martin O'Neill let me go and he obviously felt that was the right thing at the time. But you go on and want to prove people wrong.
As players we are in control of what we do and the way we prepare for the games.
To be captain of such a huge club like Chelsea is a great personal achievement.
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.
Players at the highest level have got high football intelligence, so they can adapt, but at the same time you need a structure and an idea of how you've got to play that system.
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.
You get people criticising people who are happy to sit on the bench, picking up money.
I'm my worst critic when I'm playing.
I've got the utmost respect for Azpilicueta as a player and a person.
As a defence, we have to strive for that clean sheet while also giving the attacking players the licence to go and create.
You want to achieve the most you can in the short period you have in your career as a professional footballer.
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.
The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results.
For myself it's about winning competitions.
I'd rather do my talking on the pitch.
