Quotes from Juan Mata

That's what I work for every day: training and playing to the maximum, trying to do the best I can.

For me, good football is not about how many skills you show or how many players you beat. It's about making the right decision every time you have the ball.

There are some examples in my career when my family was more concerned than me. So every time I win or I score, I always think about them.

If a luxury player is a player who scores and assists and has good stats, then I'm happy to be a luxury player.

I will always be grateful to Chelsea, to the players, the directors, the owner, the fans.

The business side of football makes it seem as though the owners are now more important than the fans.

If you want to be anonymous, you can go to Soho or Camden, and it's not a problem. There are a lot of Spanish people. If you go to Piccadilly or Oxford Circus, you hear lots of Spanish voices, but I'm not recognised much.

The only thing I think about is helping the team, respecting all my team-mates, not being selfish.

I train a lot. After training sessions, I like to stay with some balls and some goalkeepers - they help me a lot, too.

If you want to give 100 per cent, you have to feel that you are important for the manager.

With respect to the world of football, I earn a normal wage. But compared to 99.9% of Spain and the rest of the world, I earn an obscene amount.

I don't dab, bro.

There's always pressure. People's happiness depends on you; they suffer with you. You get used to it, but you have to know how to handle it.

My adaptation on the pitch has gone in parallel with my adaptation to London.

I think that being confident gives you more freedom. It liberates you, helps you have the courage to do things on the football pitch.

My duty, what I have to do, is try my best in every training session, leave everything of me on the pitch. That's how I can go to bed at the end of the day and be happy with myself.

I just want to be playing! I love to play. But I think I can play in the three positions behind the striker.

I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.

Obviously, replacing Sir Alex Ferguson was never going to be easy - not for him or for anyone. Although I was with him for only a few months, I'll always be grateful, as he played a key role in my move to United. He was the one who called me, who welcomed me, and the one who gave me the confidence to come here.

If you face the goalkeeper, you have to wait for him to go and then put the ball in the other side. It's easy to say it but not so easy to do it when you are in the 88th minute of a game. So you must practise.

I would like to win the Premier League.

I've scored as many goals for Manchester United in the Premier League as for Chelsea, but in something like 30 games less.

I've tried to improve - defending, attacking, pressing, trying to think before a game, to be more clever, do something before the defender can think of it, to become a better player. That makes me feel good, that hunger to improve in every way.