A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

They're crying. It was Drogba, it was the angels, it was the heavens, it was the stars, it was the gods, it was everything for Chelsea. This is not anything to do with football. This is more than football, this is spirit. Never giving in, fighting to the end, that English spirit running right the way through this Champions League for Chelsea.

We always looked forward to playing Aston Villa to hear him mangle Ugo Ehiogu's name. "Make sure you pick up Ehugu, Ehogy, whatever his name is."

Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

If you don't like someone, don't shake their hand.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.