Quotes from Gary Cahill

I don't think you sit there as a young boy thinking you want a full set of medals, you just want to achieve something.

Hopefully, I've got rid of the question marks over whether I can play at the top level.

There are challenges in front of you that you face all the time in football. You ride through and come out the other end.

It is easy to play well when things are going rosy.

The scary thing about blood clots is where they can lead.

I am sure for every striker, scoring goals gives them confidence.

Where you have a little setback or you are out of the team you're considered a different player but you know you will come out of the other side of it.

Having people doubt you is what gives you that fire in your belly.

It has always been in my make up to play a high percentage of games.

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.

To be captain of such a huge club like Chelsea is a great personal achievement.

You get people criticising people who are happy to sit on the bench, picking up money.

Are Chelsea a hard club to turn down? Yes, of course.

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.

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.

I've always been hungry to play football.

I want to play football out on the pitch. I am not different to anyone else and the ambition never changes.

It's always difficult not playing games and that match fitness and sharpness is something you always lack when you don't get that opportunity.

For myself it's about winning competitions.

That's what I want to do, to go out and perform back to the levels I know I'm capable of, the levels you can produce with consistent games and to win football matches.

For me, it's about consistently churning out performances and looking to improve at the same time.

I'm my worst critic when I'm playing.

If you can play effective counter-attacking football, as you see in the Premier League, it's very effective.

You can go anywhere in the Premier League and it's going to be tough. Every single game is so tough. So I think if you make it, and you're lucky enough to play in the Premier League, I don't think there's a need to go anywhere.