Ruben Loftus-Cheek Quotes

When you're a young lad in a team like Arsenal, you feel like, of course, you deserve to be at the club... but you're on the periphery, and there are world-class players and more experienced players around you.

Now I know that when you do come to a new club, you have to fight for your spot if you want to be in the line-up week in, week out.

If you go down the leagues, you have to understand what level you're working with, and if you get frustrated, then it's not going to ever happen for you. That's why a lot of managers don't succeed where they should do.

It's true that at Malaga, I played every game as a starter, but here at Madrid, they give nothing away.

In any footballer's head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games.

It's tricky because obviously when you join a new club, from the very first day, everyone looks at you and tries to see if you are good enough. That's more or less what you have to go through. Then the other thing is that when I signed for West Ham nobody told me I was going to be number one.

I started lower down the leagues with Coventry, so I'd had that taste of first-team action at a young age. I'd already played 40 or 50 games before moving on, and when I got to Norwich, I had to bide my time at the start.

Maybe if I had signed for Chelsea I'd just have been sitting on the bench and what is the point in that?

At my first clubs, TOP Oss and NEC, I was the one everybody looked at and talked about, but at Feyenoord, I was one of many good players.

It's hard in England. If I didn't score for three games, there was the chance someone would take my place or I would be loaned out.

When I arrived at Chelsea, I had got used to playing 50 games, and suddenly, I was sharing my position with another player.

I have always wanted to fight no matter what position I am in, and whether that is Liverpool or England, I need to do more, and I need to do better because you have younger players, or players get signed for the club who push you and want to take your place, and you have to be better than them.

Talent level, I feel like if I'm not the best, I'm one or two. I think it's just opportunity, the situation that you're in, and who's on your team. I think I've done all right.

I have the biggest respect for Petr Cech. He is one of the best goalkeepers in the world, so I think putting him and me in the same team is not the healthiest thing in the world.

I think I'm the best wide receiver in the NFL.

It's not that things won't change - they can't help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.

I went from being a big fish in a small pond to going to City with a lot of top players, I felt like I had to work really hard to be the best.

If you play well in the Champions League you get your name out there.

Every player develops over time, as does every team and every opponent.

All 15 guys on every team want to play all 48 minutes. It's just kind of the way that every season goes.

There's a massive difference between playing Under-21 football and being on the bench at Chelsea, and playing every week in a league where you are playing for people's livelihoods and helping to pay their mortgages.

There are so many things that a goalkeeper coming to the Premier League has not experienced in a different league.

You come up to 20 years old and you've only played three times. You see other boys who are playing regularly in the Premier League or in the Championship. And you're thinking 'I've only played three times, no starts, they've all been five minutes here and there.'

Rugby is a game that's constant. If you are not growing with it, you get left behind.

It will be a tough task to break into the first team at Chelsea.