Mason Mount

“My family have always said: 'Don't worry about the pressure side.' I've always stuck to that.”

“The Premier League is definitely a big step up but you've got to be ready.”

“You have to create your own atmosphere.”

“Every day we need to get better, on the training ground and when we play. It takes time.”

“The two years out on loan were about trying to get experience and work as hard as I could to make sure when I came back I could give myself the best chance to get back to Chelsea and get in the team. That was my goal.”

“I'm very headstrong and I don't really let too many things get to me.”

“When I was in the academy I might have done a little trick here or there or a step-over, but as you get older I learned in the Championship, my first real experience of it, they don't always come off and experienced players are going to read it.”

“I've played midfield my whole life.”

“You don't want to be the boy leaving Chelsea, you want to train like every session is your last session because you know you always have to prove something to people.”

“My development at every age group was good. If I was playing in one age group, I always wanted to play the year above.”

“We just try to focus on ourselves and how we can improve, what areas of our game we can do better in.”

“I learned so much and my mentality got so much stronger living away from my family.”

“In the modern game, you have to be ready to change if the other team are tactically different to what you have prepared for.”

“Any goal I'll take it, especially at Wembley, anyway it goes in.”

“The focus is trying to get the three points every game.”

“To see my name alongside the names I've looked up to all my life is crazy, Messi in particular. When I was younger I was a ball boy during a Barcelona and Chelsea match at Stamford Bridge and seeing him up close was amazing.”

“When you're clinical in front of goal you are going to win games.”

“I had a season of U23s football and I played in almost every game. For me, at that time I needed to move on. I didn't need to play another year of U23s and it wouldn't have helped me.”

“I am always trying to improve.”

“Every off-season you look at what you can improve on. So you come in for the new season fresh and ready to go again.”