Quotes from Mason Mount

I feel like I can play in any position and I just want to understand, more and more, different positions.

I've played five positions in a match, not three!

When you are putting that pressure on yourself to win the Premier League, every game brings pressure, every point counts.

The Premier League is definitely a big step up but you've got to be ready.

I always believed that I would make it to the first team through hard work and determination and I didn't let anybody get in the way of my focus, even my dad when he had questions.

You come into a team and there are players from all different countries so you have to work to show how good you are.

The ball comes into the box and you have no idea how it is going to fall. You cannot have thoughts in your head, like, 'It is on my left, I am not going to hit it.' You just have to take it in your stride and hit the target. That is exactly what I try to do.

Dad's very hard on me and is my biggest critic, so 10 is always going to be the target. He has said that my whole life. If you are averaging 10 goals as a midfielder, you are having a good season.

Once you get that feeling of winning something and performing at the highest level, you gain that extra confidence to help you set new targets. That is something I have always done, mentally-wise.

Growing up I was always small. I think growing up through the academy and being the small one, you get that technical side of the game and you are learning from bigger players.

A free-kick is a very tough technique and it's something I've always worked on.

I never saw myself as a prospect, it was always about playing as much football as I can.

I don't really look at any other thing but focusing on how I perform, what I can do in the game.

Frank was an example throughout my career at Chelsea, and throughout my career as a midfielder. When it comes to scoring goals as a midfielder, you look at Frank Lampard as a role model.

I am a winner so I don't like watching other people win, especially other teams.

As a player, you want to win everything as much as you can. If you're a footballer, you're a winner. When you then step up to the first team and you win something with them, that feeling is multiplied massively because you're at the top of the club and now you're winning so you want it more and more.

I'd say friendships are one of the most important things in football.

I'll keep getting better and better.

I looked at a lot of players - the legends from Chelsea - when I was at the academy and witnessed the first team winning trophies and major trophies. I wanted to take things from every part of their game. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. Players like Lampard, John Terry, Didier Drogba, Ashley Cole, Petr Cech... All of them really.

Every off-season you look at what you can improve on. So you come in for the new season fresh and ready to go again.

Sometimes you're playing three games in a week, then you have to get the recovery in.

I'm very headstrong and I don't really let too many things get to me.

We can never be content with being top of the group in the Champions League and going to the top of the league and being around it; we can never be content with that. We know what we can do and our goal is always to be No 1 and push for titles.

I went to Holland and had a good season where I learned a lot about a different type of football. And then going to the Championship. We all know what that's like, how tough it is. And that added a different part to my game.