Gary Cahill Quotes

"I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people."

"Everything gradually comes to an end or there's a new challenge around the corner."

"Every experience, good or bad, is a learning process."

"It is easy to play well when things are going rosy."

"I am sure for every striker, scoring goals gives them confidence."

"I want to play football out on the pitch. I am not different to anyone else and the ambition never changes."

"I'd rather do my talking on the pitch."

"When you are in a squad, you are looking around to make sure that everyone is focused and feels the same way."

"Sometimes when you're at a club like Chelsea you feel sorry when you see a player move on, because naturally some progress and some don't. You don't hear about the ones that don't."

"For myself it's about winning competitions."

"We all know it's hard to have time to come in as a young player - maybe the club and the supporters give you seven, eight, nine games where you're rusty and not performing. It's difficult to do that."

"It's easy to play football when everything is going well and you are winning games back to back, winning, winning, it's the best feeling ever, you can go out there and express yourself you feel like you are not going to make mistakes."

"The hardest thing is when things are not going so well and you have got to dig in and get results."

"When things are going well, everyone's coming into training, having a lot of banter and joking about and enjoying things, and when you are not, it's not that feeling, because the expectation level is to win."

"I played for England off the back of playing for Bolton so I would like to thank the fans there for making me feel at home for the four years that I played there."

"I was told 'you can't play for England, you're at Bolton.' I proved them wrong."

"I came to Chelsea and it was 'oh you can't play Champions League, you can't do this, you can't do that' and I proved them wrong."

"You want to achieve the most you can in the short period you have in your career as a professional footballer."

"When a top club comes calling, who you know will be firing on all fronts with competitions and medals, that's ultimately what you want to be playing for."

"When Chelsea came calling for me, it was an opportunity, it was a chance and looking from the outset you may not be sure how it's going to go. But it's one you can't turn down, you have to grab it with both hands. Then you have to work as hard as you can to make it work."

"As a defence, we have to strive for that clean sheet while also giving the attacking players the licence to go and create."

"Whatever is going on off the pitch, players relish playing football."

"I've got the utmost respect for Azpilicueta as a player and a person."

"I've enjoyed success and I feel like I've been a big part of success - not just involved in winning trophies but involved heavily."

"Every time you come out of the team I know you don't just disappear, you don't just become a bad player overnight."

"I'm my worst critic when I'm playing."

"This is what playing football is all about - trying to reach finals and trying to lift trophies."

"I don't want to be stale."

"You get people criticising people who are happy to sit on the bench, picking up money."

"It has always been in my make up to play a high percentage of games."