Quotes from Patrick Bamford

I've always believed that when I play up front and once I've scored, then I keep scoring.

No one wants to sit on the bench and not play.

I had a chat with my dad and decided that sometimes you've just got to look like you're fighting. So I started putting myself about a bit more, showing a bit more aggression in training.

When I decided to move to Chelsea, I got a bit of stick at the time, but I didn't move just because of the money or just because it was a big club. I moved there because I wanted to play for them.

Sometimes you have to take the opportunity when it comes because it might not come again. That's what my thoughts were when I went to Chelsea.

I don't have any reason not to be at Chelsea. It is my dream to put on that blue shirt and play for them eventually.

I want to play for Chelsea. I hope I do get that chance, and I think I can compete.

We have to try to be positive now and look to the future and think positive things: then positive things will happen.

I got a phone call from David Moyes: he was interested in me going out to Real Sociedad, and I was quite keen on the idea if I didn't get the Premier League club that I wanted. Going abroad appealed to me.

When I go on loan, I don't really think about Chelsea. I just concentrate on the team I'm at and try to help them, same as when I was at MK Dons, Derby, and Middlesbrough.

It's about getting experience and developing. The best way to do that is to go out on loan to play first-team football.

It will be a tough task to break into the first team at Chelsea.

We've actually got a Chelsea loan WhatsApp group. The loan department set it up. Sometimes it drains your battery when everyone is messaging each other.

In my head, if I don't get a shot at Chelsea, personally, I think I will have failed.

I think for every young player of my age, they have to go out on loan. I know there's an U21 league and the Europa League for the youth teams, but it's not the same as playing men's football, when there's a lot more riding on it.

We have a psychologist at Chelsea who goes around seeing the loan players. He said every top, top player has a dark side. So someone like Diego Costa sometimes oversteps the mark. But you can see he plays on the edge. He said I had to develop that. It's not natural for me to be like that.

As long as I can keep pushing on and climbing the ladder, then that's good.

If you don't play well, people don't watch the game, but if you have scored, your name flashes up; it doesn't matter how you've played. So as a striker, that is what I've got to try to do - make sure I score - and if you're doing that, you're also helping the team.

I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I did that to keep me stimulated.

I went home every night wondering how to get in the Burnley team. It was, 'You've been brought up nicely, had everything handed to you.' Is that what people think just because I went to private school and played instruments?

Nobody in the footballing world got here by having it handed to them.

Football is generally a working-class sport, and because of the fact I went to private school and was brought up slightly differently, people think that makes me a different person.

I started at Nottingham Forest cleaning toilets and scrubbing the shower floors.

Most strikers playing in the Premier League regularly are aged around 23 or 24.