Quotes from Diego Costa

Do I enjoy the aggression of English football? No. I like to play football. I like to score goals. I like to do things well.

Scoring goals is scoring goals. From a striker's point of view, the aim is the same.

You can run 20km, 80, 100, and if there's no spirit between the players, the coaches, as colleagues, it won't come out as well.

I want to be competitive; I want to run all over - I want to win.

When a game comes around, that's the time to be serious. During the week, the training sessions are serious, but away from there, you have to relax and switch off.

I don't go into a game with specific targets. I don't pinpoint an opposing player before a match, trying to exploit a kind of weakness.

I train all week just to play for 90 minutes. I love playing games, and so during those 90 minutes, it's always 100 per cent.

Everyone has to be their own critic.

You just have to be prepared because in the Premier League, you are not always going to have more than once chance to score. When it comes your way, you have to be ready to take that chance. If you're not calm, you know it might not come again.

I can accept defeat, but I love to win and be competitive. It is my job, and I love it.

The best way to attack is to defend well.

I don't have a problem with any defenders. I've always played against great defenders.

If you do not have the team behind you, then you can't do things on your own. It all depends on the team.

I give no quarter, and I ask for none. Out there, I'm going to fight for my team and do the best I can.

You always have to know that you are going to leave everything on the pitch, every drop of sweat, to help the team win the game.

I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.

If you pinpointed someone before the kick-off, probably you would become embroiled in a fight, and you would be distracted from what really matters and not play well.

I have to be extra careful, but I'm never going to change the way I play.

I'd rather have someone who tells me straight up what happens rather than sweet things that I want to hear.

It is not easy for me to pick out one goal or match as my favourite, but if I had to choose one Wembley memory, it would probably be my free-kick against Portsmouth in 2010.

As we say, finals are not to play them, they are to win them.

I look back, and I know what I left behind in Lagarto when I pursued my own dream.

I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

Don't put wings on me; I am no angel.