1) “This player Kante, he was running so hard that I thought he must have a pack full of batteries hidden in his shorts. He never stopped running in training. I tell him: ‘One day, I’m going to see you cross the ball, and then finish the cross with a header yourself.’ He’s unbelievable.”
2) “I don’t want N’Golo Kante to be compared with me. Kante can be Kante. I want him to be more than me, but I love to watch him play because you can see in him the joy. I love the kind of player like that, who plays for the team. Sometimes you see a team with big players, but for me whenever a team is winning it is because of spirit.”
-Claude Makelele
3) “I was at the Chelsea training ground last week to see Eden Hazard and noticed Kante wandering back to the changing rooms. So I went over to him and stood in front of him. And I poked him in the chest. I had to, just to check if he was real!”
-Thierry Henry
4) “His impact has been absolutely incredible. When you watch him in games he’s infectious. He’s all over the pitch.”
-Gary Neville
5) “N’Golo Kante obviously made a huge difference with no perceptible change in his levels of fitness, tackling quality or general ability after a month long lay-off. It adds to the theory he may in fact not be altogether built like the rest of us human beings.”
– Pat Nevin
6) “To be the man mountain that he is, and the size he is, says a lot about him.”
-David Beckham
7) “He is brave, he is a brave man and he has great quality.”
-Antonio Conte
8) “N’Golo Kante’s history is amazing, as is his play. I love him and I think everyone has already seen that I have a good relationship with him. He was playing in lower divisions and was getting better and better and now he is one of the best midfielders in the world.”
-David Luiz
– Eden Hazard