Quotes from Petr Cech

When you bring in a player with a big reputation for a big fee, and he's coming from a different championship, and it starts badly, then you can be worried - we had an example of that with Andriy Shevchenko.

It's normal in a top club that people change.

It's always good to have the right call in the end.

As a player, it's better to wait a moment for the correct call than be let down by an incorrect call.

Football is a collective sport, but goalkeeping is an individual sport.

My father has a book where, ever since I started playing games... he wrote down the games that I played in. And then, when I did my website, we thought that was a really good idea, that people can keep track of my games.

You always have years when you go through transition and the side needs to be rebuilt. Or you have changes in terms of managers.

For a big club, you can accept that the team does not win the league because it is in transition, but you cannot afford to slip out of the Champions League spot.

My favourite language, actually, is Czech, just because it's so colourful. We have so many combinations, words, and expressions. I have to say there are a lot of things which you can say in Czech, but you cannot really translate, because the meaning would make no sense.

I had a depressed skull fracture. A few pieces of bone went in quite deep; that was the biggest danger.

Buffon may be a bit smaller, but he has everything that you want from a great goalkeeper. He relays his confidence to his defence, and they feel that they have a great keeper behind them. Everybody can make mistakes, but his consistency level is amazing. You never see him have a bad game.

Iker Casillas is one of those keepers who always seems to be at his best in the really difficult games when he has hardly got anything to do but reacts when needed in those emergency situations.

When you are going for every trophy, it is always good to have as many points as early as possible in the Champions League, and then you can concentrate on the league and the Carling Cup.

There are some people who have left me negative messages, but they aren't true Chelsea fans.

If you take the autobiographies of great sports people, they are almost always the same. They start with zero; they are always ambitious, know what they want to do in life, and have the confidence to do it.

The connection between the Soviet Union and Czech people - or Czech politicians - was very big. It was like a model country for us. But it wasn't the best model, so a lot of Czechs don't like to speak about Russia or the Soviet Union.

Arsenal is a team who challenge for the top and definitely match my ambitions and personal motivation.

I speak all my languages basically every day with the people in the dressing room, and it's a pleasure to be able to do so. On the pitch, if it's a group of players I'm trying to communicate with, then I use English because you need to make sure everyone understands what you are saying.

Obviously, every player wants to keep their spot in the starting line-up, and I'm the same.

Every summer at a club is important because you have some changes in the squad.

Show me a team of the stature of Chelsea, Manchester United, Real Madrid, or Barcelona who is not obsessed with winning the Champions League. If they are not, I'd be surprised why they play in it.

One day, if I feel the fear of putting my head in the middle of some battle or scrum, then I stop.

I think it's very useful when you want to be the team who create. You need to create this superiority at the back when you build up using the goalkeepers.

I want to be playing, I want to have a chance to compete for my position in the team, and I want to be useful for the team and do the usual stuff on the pitch week in, week out.