Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Mason Mount - Page 2

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

I am someone that loves football. Any opportunity to play or be involved, I'll be ready.

Any goal I'll take it, especially at Wembley, anyway it goes in.

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.

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.

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 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.

We just try to focus on ourselves and how we can improve, what areas of our game we can do better in.

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.

To be called up to England, to play at Old Trafford and then to come and play at the Bridge, there's so much experience I can take away.

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

It helps being a fan of a player and then playing against him because you know what he likes to do.

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.

When you reach the senior game, you can still be someone that leads by example but you can't just be that.

I've varied between playing a bit more forward in a No 10 position but I always kind of see myself as a No 8.

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.

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

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

I was 18 and moved to a different country on my own. It was a tough decision but, looking back on it now, it was the best decision. I learned so much from being out there.

I think Barca and Iniesta were a big part of me growing up, looking at those as role models.

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'm versatile and I can change positions. That's what the modern game is about.

As a midfielder, you are always going to have that pressure in there to move the ball quickly.

I always go into a game trying to get an assist and trying to get a goal, I want to influence games.

I've definitely got longer passing in my locker and you can bring that out more when you're playing in that No 8 position.

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.

I think of the passion that the country has - not just for football but the passion everybody has to be from England. That's how I am as well.

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

I have had a lot of boos in my short career, that is obviously from away fans or home fans!

When we go out to train, there's like this big microwave which heats the boots up so when you put them on it feels nice and it's not tough and hard. When you have studs that are metal, they get boiling hot. So when Jorginho walks out and everyone is putting their boots on, he puts a hot stud on your leg. It burns your leg.

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

When you're clinical in front of goal you are going to win games.

Chelsea is the main goal for me, I want to play in their first-team.

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.

The most important thing for me is that I continue trying to hit the levels I've hit before and go even further.

I have evolved my game to be quick, to know what to do when the ball comes to me.

The seasons fly by so you have to make the most of every season and enjoy it, which is always something I try to do.

I've played midfield my whole life.

I think there is pressure on every game, we are England and are always looking to win every game and the performances we look to put in have to be top quality.

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.