You're not a robot, you're not going to be nine out of 10 every game. But when things aren't going well, you work even harder and look for a reaction.
For sure I want to achieve records.
Players at the highest level have got high football intelligence, so they can adapt, but at the same time you need a structure and an idea of how you've got to play that system.
It is difficult to click your fingers and say, 'Right, go and play that formation now.'
I have been my own man. I feel like I can be me but I have obviously learned from the best.
When I was growing up I would always watch the more experienced players to see what they were doing and why they were doing it.
To be captain of such a huge club like Chelsea is a great personal achievement.
Diego Costa is Diego Costa. He scores goals. He is an animated character and he is a big personality.
Every season I think it's right every great team tries to improve the quality of the team.
As players we are in control of what we do and the way we prepare for the games.
When you get a little knockback in your career, it gives you something to strive for.
Martin O'Neill let me go and he obviously felt that was the right thing at the time. But you go on and want to prove people wrong.
Work hard at your game and then you will progress.
It's always strange going back to Villa Park for me.
I know what I'm capable of over many years.
I have been hugely honoured to have played for my country and I would never shut the door.
It has been a huge honour and I am hugely grateful to the managers for the caps that I have had.
We won the Europa League in 2013 and it was an amazing night, an amazing feeling. I take those memories and think to myself, 'I want to do that again.'
I'm ambitious in everything I do. That is never going to change.
I've always been hungry to play football.
