Mason Mount Quotes

Don’t look too far ahead or too far back, just stay in the moment and try to do the big things in football, which is winning trophies.

It’s all I’ve dreamt winning a trophy with Chelsea. To go all the way in the Champions League.

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.

You have to create your own atmosphere.

Going on loan certainly helped me, speaking to players who’ve been in the game longer than me at that young age, especially at Derby.

I know the focus on my performance or the team’s performance is on the pitch. We’ve got to do what we have to do on the pitch. What comes with it off, it doesn’t bother me too much.

Christmas means a lot to me as me and my family have always been together celebrating, it is a big thing for my family.

My family have always said: ‘Don’t worry about the pressure side.’ I’ve always stuck to that.

I never saw myself as a prospect, it was always about playing as much football as I can.

Frank was an example throughout my career at Chelsea, and throughout my career as a midfielder. When it comes to scoring goals as a midfielder, you look at Frank Lampard as a role model.

I don’t really look at any other thing but focusing on how I perform, what I can do in the game.

There are so many people who have helped me along my journey, too many to name really, but most important were my family.

My dad has always been involved in football, as both a manager and a player, although only at the amateur and semi-professional level. He was quite successful in our local area and definitely had a massive influence on me and my football development growing up.

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

The mentality side of football is massive.

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

When you are putting that pressure on yourself to win the Premier League, every game brings pressure, every point counts.

We can never be content with being top of the group in the Champions League and going to the top of the league and being around it; we can never be content with that. We know what we can do and our goal is always to be No 1 and push for titles.

To be called up to England, to play at Old Trafford and then to come and play at the Bridge, there’s so much experience I can take away.

I’ve played five positions in a match, not three!

It is about getting into the box more, being more clinical, the final pass. It is about really putting that pressure on myself to be someone who creates.

A free-kick is a very tough technique and it’s something I’ve always worked on.

Watching David Beckham and Ronaldo scoring all these free-kicks, I was in awe.

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.

Dad’s very hard on me and is my biggest critic, so 10 is always going to be the target. He has said that my whole life. If you are averaging 10 goals as a midfielder, you are having a good season.

The ball comes into the box and you have no idea how it is going to fall. You cannot have thoughts in your head, like, ‘It is on my left, I am not going to hit it.’ You just have to take it in your stride and hit the target. That is exactly what I try to do.

Once you get that feeling of winning something and performing at the highest level, you gain that extra confidence to help you set new targets. That is something I have always done, mentally-wise.

The seasons fly by so you have to make the most of every season and enjoy it, which is always something I try to do.

I always want to play every game.

Ultimately I want to play for Chelsea.

We need to keep doing the basics well.

I want more trophies – I want them all.

I’m a player that wants to do their best for the team and work hard. And maybe people take that the wrong way, I don’t know.

I’ll keep getting better and better.

Dad was a manager at Newport, over on the Isle of Wight. I remember going from Portsmouth on the hovercraft to the Isle of Wight for games with my mum.

Fans don’t forget anything do they?

For someone to say your son has a life-threatening illness only on the phone is hard to believe.

I think there is pressure on every game, we are England and are always looking to win every game and the performances we look to put in have to be top quality.

I think of the passion that the country has – not just for football but the passion everybody has to be from England. That’s how I am as well.

I’m versatile and I can change positions. That’s what the modern game is about.

The Ballon d’Or presentation will be the first time I’ve ever worn black tie!

I always believed that I would make it to the first team through hard work and determination and I didn’t let anybody get in the way of my focus, even my dad when he had questions.

It’s such an honour to represent your country. It’s the pinnacle of the game so when you come to a major tournament, it’s always playing on your mind about what the opportunity can be and what you can achieve.

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

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 don’t really look too much into the social media side. With the fans not at the stadiums, a lot of people have got a lot to say on social media. I try to stay off it even if we’ve won the game or lost the game, it doesn’t really matter to me.

I am a winner so I don’t like watching other people win, especially other teams.

I feel like I am versatile and can play in a deeper role and obviously in a more forward role. I’m always learning.

I’m always someone who wants to strive to prove someone wrong or show something that maybe they haven’t seen.

That has alway been the goal. To be the best in the world, to win major tournaments.

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

I always go into a game trying to get an assist and trying to get a goal, I want to influence games.