Top 50 NGolo Kante Quotes

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?’

We will fight against good teams.

I can’t be the same as another player. I am just my way and I will try to improve on that at Chelsea.

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

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

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

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

My English is improving because I learnt it in one year at Leicester, before it was just in school and on holiday, but I have to learn more, I don’t understand it all.

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

Playing in the Champions League is a big dream of mine. When you are a player and have a chance to play in it, it’s a good thing.

The way we stop Mesut Ozil is as a team. He’s a good player but only as a team can we stop him.

We seem to have some quite good ‘FIFA 17’ players at Chelsea.

I grew up just as my friends did until 19 before leaving home, and it’s because of that I am who I am now.

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

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.

I’m happy to help the team win.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I saw Claude Makelele play in the French national team but before when he played at a club I didn’t watch him a lot.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I made the right choice to come to Chelsea.

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

With Arsenal there was an interest but not a big as other clubs. That is why I didn’t go to Arsenal and went to Chelsea.

There have been a lot of French midfielders at Chelsea, but they did it their way and I do it my way and I hope I can do good things at 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 came to Chelsea to work, to keep learning and to keep improving.

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.

We have to work together for the good of the team, for trying to win games. That is what we train to do.

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.

It is my club, I am a Chelsea player.

I give my best for my team-mates. At Leicester it was like that and everyone was focused for the title and we did it. Here at Chelsea it’s the same.

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.

The professional world makes a lot of young amateurs dream, and to go from one to the other can inspire others, like me, when I heard stories of Didier Drogba and Adil Rami, who went from being amateurs to becoming pros.

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

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.

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

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