“Dad's very hard on me and is my biggest critic, so 10 is always going ...” — Mason Mount Quote

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.

Ultimately I want to play for Chelsea.

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

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.

You come into a team and there are players from all different countries so you have to work to show how good you are.

Some of my happiest childhood memories are going to the movies with my dad and seeing whatever was out that week. In 1977, when I was 7, it was 'Star Wars.' That was a life-changer.

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

My earliest memory is being in a snow hole, aged two-and-a-half, with my dad somewhere up a mountain in a blizzard. I don't know what my dad saw in me - I was a geeky kid - but he had that philosophy: prepare the kid for the road, not the road for the kid.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.