Top 50 Eden Hazard Quotes

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 have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we’re having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there’s a foul, and that’s a chance to score a goal.

In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.

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.

For me, it’s easier to play with my right foot. It’s simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.

The FA Cup is something we want to win, but when you play for Chelsea, it is not something you think about a lot because you want to win every game.

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

When the game is finished, it’s completely finished. I’m with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, ‘Oh, did you see the game?’ and I say, ‘No, I didn’t see the game’. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.

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

I’m not saying I like to be kicked, but it’s good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.

Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.

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.

If my wife was to say, ‘Honey, I’d like you to go to PSG’, I would have to take it into account.

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

It is good, it is better to be voted by the players – they know everything about football.

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

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

Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers – I have family everywhere – is the most important thing.

I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don’t need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

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

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

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 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.

It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

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 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.

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.

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.

The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal – they don’t forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.

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.

A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement – not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.

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.

You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn’t have to think about it too much.

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’ve had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you’re doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

You want to win the games, to win trophies.

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.

I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.

For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.

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

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

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 always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.

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

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

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.