Quotes About Professionalism

It's never nice to sit on the bench. Everybody knows it is not what you want as a professional footballer but it's about responding and coming back.

We all like a party but when that 'becomes the main feature of your lifestyle as a footballer, I haven't got time for that.

We are getting to the point where, like the men's game, playing football is not only a legitimate career but enables you to live really well and can perhaps even set you up for life. It will allow little girls to tell their mums and dads they want to be professional footballers and not have their dreams dismissed so easily.

It is true that footballers are mistrustful.

I started my career in an era when footballers were different. There was a different culture.

There are a lot of football clubs that are fantastic football clubs but how they treat footballers is another story.

We're professional footballers and we just have to be prepared for anything that could happen.

I wouldn't want anyone to think I was less than respectful for the people with whom I work.

I do take my work very seriously, and I am first and foremost a very dedicated actor. I am also a very shy guy so you won't find me chatting or talking that much.

A lot of kids, when they get to 18 or 19, they start getting flashy and forgetting about the real basics of being a professional footballer.

It doesn't matter whether it's the 93rd minute, Giggsy is making his jinky, mazy little runs. You could forgive him for maybe not coming out training every day, because he's done so much in the game, but every day he's out there. He doesn't seem to need a rest.

I have a lot of respect, whatever format I play.

Being a person that plays all three formats, I've probably done the most bubble days out of anyone.

I've been consistent in all the three formats, and that's what I want to do as a cricketer.

If you're going to play in all three formats, you can't play all the games. You probably play two Test matches, miss the last one and take some time off and maybe come back for the second ODI or second T20.

I wanted to win every day, I wanted to show them every day that I was an NBA player - from shooting the ball in practice, to being there early or forming relationships - everything in my power I tried to do.

I'm not desperate to stay in Formula One. It needs to be sensible and it needs to be the right deal.

What I don't like in my job is somebody who doesn't put forth the effort. Somebody who doesn't come to play every day.

You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it.

I don't think I had one personal foul in my career. Now, that being said, no one can ever say I never brought it.

I'm the wrong person to not be professional around. When someone calls 'action' and we're in the frame together, I'm gonna run you over. You're gonna get eaten alive.

I loved working with Chris Nolan. I love working with Lawrence Kasdan. Dan Gilroy. Francis Lawrence I love.

I only had good years with Frank de Boer. I don't have anything bad to say about him.

That's one of the things I like about our business: our fraternity of coaches. As competitive as it is, guys find time to share when they can.