Top 95 Quotes & Sayings by Eden Hazard
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Belgian athlete Eden Hazard.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.
The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.
The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game.
Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
If I ever leave, it'll be after winning a championship. You need to go out on a high so that people remember you for the right reasons.
It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!
I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.
It is hard to say no to PSG - as with all teams capable of winning the Champions League, There is always uncertainty in football.
I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
Kante is a good player. For me, it is good because he speaks French. We know he is a fantastic player; he runs a lot and works for the team.
With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed - the language, the country - but it is up to me to adapt.
I love cooking. There is nothing I like better than going home and cooking my family a nice meal. Anything with pasta! Pasta with butter! I have a good repertoire, and I can do quite a few different dishes. Sometimes they work out and sometimes not.
The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy.
I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
I love to set up my teammates. I am not here to be a star, to show off. I am here to play for the others, but if I have to try and clinch a game, then I will.
The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal - they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.
I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.
I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
I am at one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league. And in my private life, everything is also going very well. At 25, I feel in the right place.
I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.
My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.
You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.
A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.
I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.
I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.
You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.
Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.
People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
I'd played some very good games, at Manchester United, at Tottenham Hotspur, but they'd lacked a goal. There've been times when I could have scored myself, but I've played a pass to a team-mate instead.
I don't need to speak about N'Golo; everyone knows about him. He's everywhere. I think, sometimes when I'm on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I'm playing with twins!
When I get the ball with my back to goal, I like to be in touching contact. I need to feel the guy. He will try to take the ball, and I will go past him.
I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
Jose Mourinho and I get along well. I've lots of respect for him. He gives me a lot of confidence. After a bad game, he dares to say, 'We have played with 10 today,' but that's it. At moments like that, he leaves me alone.
I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.
You want to win the games, to win trophies.
The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.
You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.
In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone. But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football.
I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.
We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
I don't want to say PSG is a step backwards, but It would be returning to something I already know. I'm always in for new challenges. When I will leave Chelsea one day, it would be to discover something new.
Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.
It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
Deep down, I never wanted to see Mourinho fired. We experienced some very beautiful things together in 2015.
I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.
That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.
I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.
I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.
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