Quotes from Mason Mount

The Ballon d'Or presentation will be the first time I've ever worn black tie!

For someone to say your son has a life-threatening illness only on the phone is hard to believe.

I'm a big self-critic and I know there is room for improvement.

It's such an honour to represent your country. It's the pinnacle of the game so when you come to a major tournament, it's always playing on your mind about what the opportunity can be and what you can achieve.

That has alway been the goal. To be the best in the world, to win major tournaments.

I'm a player that wants to do their best for the team and work hard. And maybe people take that the wrong way, I don't know.

Every day we need to get better, on the training ground and when we play. It takes time.

Dad was a manager at Newport, over on the Isle of Wight. I remember going from Portsmouth on the hovercraft to the Isle of Wight for games with my mum.

Going on loan certainly helped me, speaking to players who've been in the game longer than me at that young age, especially at Derby.

There are so many people who have helped me along my journey, too many to name really, but most important were my family.

When I was in the academy I might have done a little trick here or there or a step-over, but as you get older I learned in the Championship, my first real experience of it, they don't always come off and experienced players are going to read it.

I want more trophies - I want them all.

Don't look too far ahead or too far back, just stay in the moment and try to do the big things in football, which is winning trophies.

We want to win trophies and we want to be top of the league.

It's all I've dreamt winning a trophy with Chelsea. To go all the way in the Champions League.

The mentality side of football is massive.

I learned so much and my mentality got so much stronger living away from my family.

To see my name alongside the names I've looked up to all my life is crazy, Messi in particular. When I was younger I was a ball boy during a Barcelona and Chelsea match at Stamford Bridge and seeing him up close was amazing.

I've played midfield my whole life.

I had a season of U23s football and I played in almost every game. For me, at that time I needed to move on. I didn't need to play another year of U23s and it wouldn't have helped me.

I don't really look too much into the social media side. With the fans not at the stadiums, a lot of people have got a lot to say on social media. I try to stay off it even if we've won the game or lost the game, it doesn't really matter to me.

A Ballon d'Or nomination is one of the best things you can achieve as a player but I want to achieve more and more.

I'm going to learn from every obstacle.

I'm always someone who wants to strive to prove someone wrong or show something that maybe they haven't seen.