Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.
Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.
Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.
I think about all my successes and failures and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.
I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.
I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.
If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.
When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.
I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.
I am a man who likes to play consistently; I always play better when I'm on a run of games.
When you see young players coming into the squad and pushing you, no matter what age you are, you have to react. You have to worry about yourself and perform as well as you can. If you end up looking around at others, wondering whos performing better, you take your eye off the ball.
I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.
Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.
I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.
In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.
For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.
You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.
If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.
In a way, I've thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.
Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way...
There is such a belief in the squad that we could really do something.
I remember being in West Ham's youth team and seeing Jody Morris play for Chelsea at 17 and you scoring for Liverpool on your debut when you were 18. I was watching it on Soccer Saturday and I was like, "I can't believe he's scored!" It's professional jealousy. It's best to be honest about it. It gave me real desire. I was thinking "God I want that to be me".
I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.
A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.
My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.
