Quotes About Professionalism

If you don't believe I'm a professional, do not sign me. And if you've signed me on a certain belief, don't question my integrity.

When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.

I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.

You can never really relax until you've signed that contract with your team.

I signed a five-year contract with Barcelona. I'll be here for a long time.

Just because someone signed up for something or takes advice or has managers or works in entertainment or show business with other people doesn't mean they don't have a brain, okay? It doesn't mean that they're not a real person.

Football is not always as glamourous as some might imagine, as the story of the first time I signed Marouane Fellaini perhaps illustrates.

I started full-time training when I was 10, signed professionally when I was 14, and won my first match at the same age.

Ram Gopal Varma had signed me for 'Satya' and two days before the shoot, I was dropped out of the film. He didn't even have the decency to call me or my manager and inform me about the reality. I learnt from the press that he had begun shooting without me.

When I signed that USL contract, my perspective changed on me being a professional footballer. That was my goal ever since I was young. I never thought I could achieve it, but that's when it clicked in my head that I can really go far in the sport.

I think family businesses are still crucial for India's economy, but they need to professionalize. For young entrepreneurs, too, family should play a significant part.

I have always tried to play significant characters and have never done cheap comedy.

Kevin Hitchcock, the goalkeeping coach at QPR, is an old mate, and I came to work for him on the understanding that I was first choice. If he'd said to me, 'We're also going to sign someone who's won Serie A five times and the Champions League and is one of the biggest names in South American football,' I would have thought twice before signing.

Signing bonus? Just give me a contract. I'll sign for free.

It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.

No one signs a contact saying they will always start.

'Silence Of The Lambs' was not something people expected me to do.

Naga Shaurya is a silent person and doesn't talk to anyone on the sets. But when he faces the camera, he is a different person altogether. As an actor, he is very mature.

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

What is not cool is if we have a problem with an artist or if an artist has a problem with us, come to us directly. Talk to us. Don't start a Twitter war and all that kind of stuff. That's silly.

I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.

I trust the NBA, I trust the league and Adam Silver and the job he's been able to do.

I've been able to do some great things. I've gone to All-Star Games, I've won Gold Gloves, Silver Sluggers - I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, really - and I've been fortunate financially.

One of my favorite directors is Clint Eastwood, and I hear about the way he works, and I think I'm of a similar style. Very few takes - you get what you take, and you move on. It's very much a job and work.