Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Mason Mount

In the modern game, you have to be ready to change if the other team are tactically different to what you have prepared for.

I'll keep getting better and better.

Fans don't forget anything do they?

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.

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

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

The focus is trying to get the three points every game.

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.

The two years out on loan were about trying to get experience and work as hard as I could to make sure when I came back I could give myself the best chance to get back to Chelsea and get in the team. That was my goal.

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

I am always trying to improve.

I want more trophies - I want them all.

Watching David Beckham and Ronaldo scoring all these free-kicks, I was in awe.

It is about getting into the box more, being more clinical, the final pass. It is about really putting that pressure on myself to be someone who creates.

The mentality side of football is massive.

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.

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.

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

That was always something I remember, playing in loads of different positions when I was younger, and learning about what it takes to play a right-wing role, or holding midfield, or as a striker. I had a lot of experiences in those different formations and positions.

We need to keep doing the basics well.

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

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

Christmas means a lot to me as me and my family have always been together celebrating, it is a big thing for my family.

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

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

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 feel like I am versatile and can play in a deeper role and obviously in a more forward role. I'm always learning.

It is such a special thing. As a kid growing up, you look at the Ballon d'Or and how it is the top of the top from a personal point of view.

I don't really get the opportunity to wear many suits.

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

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.

Being a Portsmouth fan, I was able to go to the final in 2008, when they beat Cardiff. I went to the semi-final that year as well, so that year I got to go to Wembley twice. Those are brilliant memories, as a Portsmouth fan, going there to watch them win.

My development at every age group was good. If I was playing in one age group, I always wanted to play the year above.

I always want to play every game.

I know how much the FA Cup means, especially to everyone in England. It's such a big competition.

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

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

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

When you are putting on that England shirt there is pressure to perform, but if you have been around it from a younger age I think you become ready for it.

I'm going to learn from every obstacle.

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

My family have always said: 'Don't worry about the pressure side.' I've always stuck to that.

I thank my family for everything.

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

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.

My dad has always been involved in football, as both a manager and a player, although only at the amateur and semi-professional level. He was quite successful in our local area and definitely had a massive influence on me and my football development growing up.

A big focus of mine is about what I do on the pitch.

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.

In a couple of games there have been players who have man-marked me, but that is down to me learning what I can do when those situations arise, getting in better positions.

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.

In the Championship you do take tackles where you think, 'OK, he is putting one on me to prove a point.' They want to try and get in your head, ruin your performance. It doesn't bother me.

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

I know the focus on my performance or the team's performance is on the pitch. We've got to do what we have to do on the pitch. What comes with it off, it doesn't bother me too much.

The Champions League is on another level. The games feel different.

Ultimately I want to play for Chelsea.

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.

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

You have to create your own atmosphere.

It's a big moment for me personally to score three at home at Stamford Bridge, it's very special.

You don't want to be the boy leaving Chelsea, you want to train like every session is your last session because you know you always have to prove something to people.