Antonio Rudiger

“I come from that side - passion, emotion, motivation and being driven.”

“At the end of the day, you want to be on the pitch as a footballer.”

“Listen, I am not naive. I don't expect everything to change overnight. I don't expect the football world to come together to kill racism in 48 hours like they killed the Super League.”

“I want people to live free.”

“I like to analyse my opponents and think to myself, 'OK, let's see how they react if I provoke them a bit.”

“This is who I am, I am a positive guy. I always try to look at the positive.”

“There is hatred in the football world, for sure. That's a fact. I have experienced the worst of it. But there is also a lot of joy, too. At Chelsea, I experienced both extremes.”

“When N'Golo Kante laughs, you cannot help but feel pure joy.”

“I spoke more to Mateo Kovacic about Real Madrid and he told me quite a lot.”

“You have to always make yourself available and always be ready in your mindset.”

“A coach is a general, he has his way and at the end of the day as players we have to do our best to follow.”

“It's good in football when you have a little bit of pressure because then you are ready to perform.”

“I have always dreamed of the Premier League.”

“Kai is talented, when I saw him train with the Germany national team I was like, 'wow!'”

“I'm very satisfied with my development in England, but I have to admit that if I had gone directly from the Bundesliga to such a big English club as Chelsea, the move might have been too early. The intermediate step to Italy was absolutely perfect for me.”

“I am aware of all the sacrifices mum had to make to get me to where I am and that is why I am always happy to go back there and put a smile on the faces of the next generation.”

“I arrived as a young boy and I leave as a man. Chelsea made me a man.”

“Football is football. We are blessed to play a game for a living that we would play for free anyway.”

“Everything with Kante is authentic.”

“My heart beats for Arsenal.”