"I'm just buzzing me."
A proper Scouse answer from the Scouser in the team for Everton Women ahead of their FA Cup final with Manchester City on Sunday.
Chantelle Boye-Hlorkah is hoping to bring the trophy back to Merseyside after a journey that includes being picked first for football by the boys in school, three anterior cruciate ligament injuries and the chance to write history.
She has a date with destiny, too.
Boye-Hlorkah broke into the Everton first-team at 17 and was part of the side that last reached the FA Cup final in 2014 only to miss the defeat to Arsenal through injury.
This time will be different.
"I'm raring to go and ready to play," she excitedly tells the ECHO about the opportunity to appear at Wembley against City.
"I'm just buzzing for the weekend. I can't wait to play in the big games that I've missed out on."
The 25-year-old started the semi-final victory over Birmingham City last month and has been present for the entire turnaround under Willie Kirk.
Bottom when he took over in December 2018, Everton - fuelled by an ambitious summer transfer window led by commercial and sporting director Sarvar Ismailov - go into the cup final unbeaten in the Women's Super League.
"I think think the thing with Willie is he has that winning mentality," Boye-Hlorkah says. "We don't settle. We don't want to draw games, never mind lose them. That is what he has brought in, that desire to go and win games.
"Even in training, we want to win. We're all fighting, we're always competitive, and that is what he has brought; a competitive, winning mentality."
Boye-Hlorkah admits she sent her team-mates away on international duty supportive text messages over WhatsApp this week.
Has she been nervously checking to make sure they don't get injured?
"Touch wood!" she shouts. We both touch wood - over Zoom - and she laughs.
Boye-Hlorkah is clearly in high spirits, and why wouldn't she be?
Growing up in Anfield and attending school in Toxteth, her early football experiences were on the estates of Kensington and Fairfield.
Before that, her passion for the game had been discovered almost by accident.
"I was playing in reception!" she smiles. "A few of the dads would watch me playing with the boys and told my mum to bring me down and I joined a team called Mini Dingles.
"The lads would look at me and say, 'I want her on my team!' That builds your confidence, when you're first pick and you're a girl."
From there she signed for Kingsley United - starring alongside Lyon and England star Nikita Parris - before the duo were snapped up by Everton at under-10 level.
"It's mad, because it's changed a little bit, but what Everton have always done is backed the Women," Boye-Hlorkah says. "I've trained at Finch Farm the minute I got into the first-team.
"Everton massively back the Women and we as players and staff always appreciate that support in us. That's why it's nice when we're doing so well, because we can give back not only to ourselves, but to the people that supported us to get to this level.
"We have great facilities, great staff and great support around us but we have got to keep pushing."
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Boye-Hlorkah has pushed as hard as she can to reach this level. When asked about the three anterior cruciate ligament injuries she sustained earlier in her career, she brushes it off gently. "It just wasn't my time," she shrugs.
But her time is now.
She penned a one-year contract extension with Everton last summer and has remained a key member of the squad under Kirk despite the high-profile arrivals of Valerie Gauvin, Nicoline Sørensen and Hayley Raso.
Seven years after her first-team debut - and with her proud family watching from home as the outbreak of coronavirus means the game will be played behind-closed-doors at Wembley - she has the opportunity to lift silverware with her girlhood club.
"It feels like I've been here forever," she laughs again. "Sometimes I feel like I'm older-headed but none of the girls would say that!"
Has she imagined a moment, though, where she scores the winning goal in the final?
"I've just been thinking about the team really," she says. "It's probably the only time I've not been thinking about scoring a winner!
"I just know the quality in our team. If I can start or come on and score a winner then that would be a positive but I'm getting on the pitch, against Manchester City, at Wembley, in an FA Cup final.
"That is a dream come true in itself."
