Quotes from N'Golo Kante

To win the World Cup in our colours was beyond my dreams and something I will never, ever forget.

Like everyone I am sometimes tired, but if I need to run I will try to run.

I give my best for my team-mates. At Leicester it was like that and everyone was focused for the title and we did it. Here at Chelsea it's the same.

When I arrived at Chelsea, I was at Leicester and I had just won my first title with a club.

To be honest, it was only when I was first in the French Ligue 1 that my manager and other people started to say, 'Okay, N'Golo recovers a lot of balls.' Before that, I didn't consider it to be my job in the team.

My failures were something for me - my first contact with professional football. Though it didn't go all that well, it's not a regret, it's just like that. But looking back, those failures helped me consider football differently, consider the professional game differently.

To represent one's own country is one of the biggest achievements a footballer can get.

I think I can improve in my attacking role, I can do more.

I can always improve. Maybe score more goals and more assists, always help the team the best I can.

I came to Chelsea to work, to keep learning and to keep improving.

My English is improving because I learnt it in one year at Leicester, before it was just in school and on holiday, but I have to learn more, I don't understand it all.

I've seen new experiences and new challenges every year. I take them step by step.

The main thing is how we play and how we work in training.

I think Eden did an amazing job, had an amazing time with Chelsea.

When you play cards and find yourself in a tricky situation, you'll use some little strategies - and that is what I have done from time to time. That is why my national teammates have called me a cheat. They are not completely right, as I am not the only person to have done it. But they are not wrong either.

There are millions of ­people out there, who every day want to get the opportunity to do the work we are doing and it's a short career. That is why I give it my all at every given opportunity.

It's always special to come to a new club.

It is always special to play against my old team.

I chose Chelsea because I spoke with the manager here and when I did that, I felt the capacity of the manager and that is why I made my decision. And of course I like Premier League football and that is why I decided to stay in the Premier League.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

I saw Claude Makelele play in the French national team but before when he played at a club I didn't watch him a lot.

I can talk with my team-mates, understand them and it's better for understanding the coaching staff and the game itself. If someone's making a run and they shout for the ball, I know now.

Football is like this: after every game you have to do better in the next and the season is the same.

I was at Boulogne, in the second team - the sixth, then the fifth division. I wasn't professional, so I kept studying because I wasn't sure if I would be able to make a living as a footballer.