Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by N'Golo Kante

Sometimes I can help the team to score, to make the last pass or to get more chances and try to score. Maybe I can do this more often.

My team-mates at Chelsea have told me about the 'Kante-facts.' It is just a bit of fun. I obviously do not cover 30 per cent of the surface of the earth.

Like everyone I am sometimes tired, but if I need to run I will try to run.

I made the right choice to come to Chelsea.

I know how it feels to handle the pressure and keep working for the win.

I am not a superstar or an ego. I am just the same as I always was: Someone who plays football.

There have been beautiful achievements of winning titles with my team-mates.

At first, I was playing in front of 10 people in a park, then 1,000, then 10,000, then 80,000 and you are on television. I have done it step by step, so it is not a problem. There is no lack of confidence to be on the field, in front of many, many people.

Ask me about my football, and not too much else. I just want to be a player among the players.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

When I first went into the senior game I was more of an attaching player to begin with.

There are millions of ­people out there, who every day want to get the opportunity to do the work we are doing and it's a short career. That is why I give it my all at every given opportunity.

It is my club, I am a Chelsea player.

Among the clubs that most wanted to recruit me were Marseille and Leicester.

I am how I am. I cannot explain it well, but I don't feel the nicest person, on the football pitch or in life, I'm just myself.

I came from amateur football.

I have worked with different managers in the past and different systems.

It's good for me to stay at Chelsea.

No, I don't think I'm especially one of the best players in the league.

I play football and I want to be considered as a footballer.

I think Eden did an amazing job, had an amazing time with Chelsea.

I need to keep improving tactically, defensively and offensively for the last pass, the last shot.

I am not one of the best midfielders in the world or something like that.

When you play cards and find yourself in a tricky situation, you'll use some little strategies - and that is what I have done from time to time. That is why my national teammates have called me a cheat. They are not completely right, as I am not the only person to have done it. But they are not wrong either.

I have always been discreet in my life.

It is good to win awards but the most important is to win together.

We will fight against good teams.

To win the World Cup in our colours was beyond my dreams and something I will never, ever forget.

I can always improve. Maybe score more goals and more assists, always help the team the best I can.

I think I can improve in my attacking role, I can do more.

I am at Chelsea and I still have aims here, what is said elsewhere is not important.

I sometimes should be more decisive.

To represent one's own country is one of the biggest achievements a footballer can get.

The main thing is how we play and how we work in training.

I've seen new experiences and new challenges every year. I take them step by step.

I try not to get carried away and to only focus on the team goals to keep winning, to keep performing to the best I can.

For two or three years I played on the wing, when I went to Boulogne in 2011, I started playing in the middle as a central midfielder.

To be honest, it was only when I was first in the French Ligue 1 that my manager and other people started to say, 'Okay, N'Golo recovers a lot of balls.' Before that, I didn't consider it to be my job in the team.

I am lucky to get the ­opportunity to play for France and that alone is a huge motivation for me, whenever I go on the pitch.

When we have to defend, I just try to recover the ball for the team because it's important, but I always try to go forward when we have the ball.

I came to Chelsea to work, to keep learning and to keep improving.

I play with some talented players like Cesc Fabregas, Nemanja Matic and Nathaniel Chalobah. They have different styles and I can learn from everyone.

We have some great players at Chelsea and the most important is the goal to win.

We are lucky to be playing football for a living. For me, this is what I have always wanted to do.

My failures were something for me - my first contact with professional football. Though it didn't go all that well, it's not a regret, it's just like that. But looking back, those failures helped me consider football differently, consider the professional game differently.

Win, win, win. We will fight for everything.

It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.

The Premier League is a competition that suits me, which is perhaps more praise to myself. It's more direct, more rhythmic than Ligue 1.

I try to speak with my team-mates a lot because I need them everyday.

I am happy to make my debut in the Champions League.

I can talk with my team-mates, understand them and it's better for understanding the coaching staff and the game itself. If someone's making a run and they shout for the ball, I know now.

When I arrived at Chelsea, I was at Leicester and I had just won my first title with a club.

It was amazing to have Mourinho call me, even though I'd been warned before how he would appeal to me. I listened to his arguments about why I should move to United. But at that time I was hesitant between staying at Leicester or leaving for Chelsea.

I chose Chelsea because I spoke with the manager here and when I did that, I felt the capacity of the manager and that is why I made my decision. And of course I like Premier League football and that is why I decided to stay in the Premier League.

I got my qualification in accountancy, but now I prefer to concentrate on football.

My favorite thing is when we lift a trophy. Afterward, we can have a picture of us lifting a trophy. And that picture shows a lot of work, a lot of difficulty and a lot of sacrifice together.

I've never been someone who loves a car and when I was young I didn't have the ambition of a car or something like that.

I was at Boulogne, in the second team - the sixth, then the fifth division. I wasn't professional, so I kept studying because I wasn't sure if I would be able to make a living as a footballer.

Football is like this: after every game you have to do better in the next and the season is the same.

Whatever you did in the past is quickly forgotten.