N'Golo Kante

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.

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.

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

Whatever you did in the past is quickly forgotten.

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.

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

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

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

I think what is important to fight for winning the ball it is the spirit. I have had that since I started playing football, so it is the spirit but I need to be fit for doing it.

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.

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.