Quotes from N'Golo Kante

I play with team-mates and when the team is good you have a good result.

At first, I was playing in front of 10 people in a park, then 1,000, then 10,000, then 80,000 and you are on television. I have done it step by step, so it is not a problem. There is no lack of confidence to be on the field, in front of many, many people.

I need to keep improving tactically, defensively and offensively for the last pass, the last shot.

Sometimes I can help the team to score, to make the last pass or to get more chances and try to score. Maybe I can do this more often.

It's a huge honour to be named player of the year... and I want to thank everyone who voted for me.

When I first went into the senior game I was more of an attaching player to begin with.

The Premier League is a competition that suits me, which is perhaps more praise to myself. It's more direct, more rhythmic than Ligue 1.

It was amazing to have Mourinho call me, even though I'd been warned before how he would appeal to me. I listened to his arguments about why I should move to United. But at that time I was hesitant between staying at Leicester or leaving for Chelsea.

I've never been someone who loves a car and when I was young I didn't have the ambition of a car or something like that.

I am at Chelsea and I still have aims here, what is said elsewhere is not important.

It is my club, I am a Chelsea player.

My first season in English football was very special. I hope to go on to achieve even more as a Chelsea player.

I made the right choice to come to Chelsea.

It's good for me to stay at Chelsea.

I can't be the same as another player. I am just my way and I will try to improve on that at Chelsea.

I am not a superstar or an ego. I am just the same as I always was: Someone who plays football.

My team-mates at Chelsea have told me about the 'Kante-facts.' It is just a bit of fun. I obviously do not cover 30 per cent of the surface of the earth.

I am how I am. I cannot explain it well, but I don't feel the nicest person, on the football pitch or in life, I'm just myself.

I play football and I want to be considered as a footballer.

Playing in the Champions League is a big dream of mine. When you are a player and have a chance to play in it, it's a good thing.

The way we stop Mesut Ozil is as a team. He's a good player but only as a team can we stop him.

No, I don't think I'm especially one of the best players in the league.

Ask me about my football, and not too much else. I just want to be a player among the players.

With Arsenal there was an interest but not a big as other clubs. That is why I didn't go to Arsenal and went to Chelsea.