Top 40 Eden Hazard Quotes

I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don’t ask all the time for the ball at my feet.

You want to win the games, to win trophies.

For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi-finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.

I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.

I like to play as a No. 10. I think I have more freedom offensively. For Belgium, we have full backs who run hard and create a lot of space, which is good, and I like to play there.

I am at one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league. And in my private life, everything is also going very well. At 25, I feel in the right place.

Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.

We feel good. We are full of confidence. We take game after game and try to win every game.

Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

The directors told me they were going to recruit good players with whom I could play decent football. Marko Marin, Oscar and me, we like to have the ball at our feet. Juan Mata likes the ball; so does Ramires.

The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.

You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.

When I get the ball with my back to goal, I like to be in touching contact. I need to feel the guy. He will try to take the ball, and I will go past him.

The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.

People were saying, ‘He’s worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!’ Even I laughed. In my head, I said, ‘OK, you’ve seen the bad side, now come see the good side’.

I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.

I love to set up my teammates. I am not here to be a star, to show off. I am here to play for the others, but if I have to try and clinch a game, then I will.

Chelsea are a big club – we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There’s a lot to do, but we’ll try to do it all.

I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.

We don’t look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It’s not only about Chelsea, this league.

That’s my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.

My first trophy in France was the Young Player of the Year. I was 17. Chelsea is not just one player. It is not only me. We have signed a lot of players. Now we have some good signings like Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa.

With experience, you improve. I’m a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.

I’m not a top-five player yet. Maybe I’m close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.

I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.

When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.

I don’t need to speak about N’Golo; everyone knows about him. He’s everywhere. I think, sometimes when I’m on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I’m playing with twins!

I’m somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I’ve made a mess of really simple things.

These days, I’m always trying to have lots of touches, to be involved, and to play my football for 90 minutes.

When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it’s really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn’t have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.

I’ve always been clear – I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It’s a big team but an inferior league. I don’t want to return to France, because I’ve won everything over there – the league title, cup, best player, best young player.

When you are young, you sometimes play one good game and then one bad game.

I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that’s difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are – that’s what the rules of the game are for.

Why change? If you’re happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.

People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

It’s true that I’m even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!

I love cooking. There is nothing I like better than going home and cooking my family a nice meal. Anything with pasta! Pasta with butter! I have a good repertoire, and I can do quite a few different dishes. Sometimes they work out and sometimes not.

The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.