Quotes About Professionalism

I felt, when I was 20, I wasn't quite ready for the physical contact of 82 games. Mentally, it was tough. I forgot what city we were in most of the time. I can't even imagine going through it at 18 or 19.

There are days where I'm at the facility almost all day long. It's definitely demanding mentally and physically.

I never mention my size when I'm after a job in show business.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

I'm a mercenary. That's what people hire me for, and I don't apologize for it.

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

I have many dear friends in the film industry, but finally, the roles come to me on merit, not because of personal equations.

I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.

Meryl Streep is awesome.

If you mess around, and you don't take every game as seriously as possible, there's going to be a time you get to the Finals and say look, 'We're not sharp right now.' At that point, there's nothing you can do.

I don't care what level you are, there is the need to offer straight talk when you're working with clients. You have to have the courage to deliver tough messages.

I've never messed around with any fans. I've never yelled at anybody.

The funny thing about voice over is you can go in in sweatpants and have your hair all messed up, and no one will see you, and you can still deliver the same great product.

I admire Messi: he's never complained to me in any game we played, but I've also never asked him for his jersey and never would. I came to win, not to say I played against Messi.

Lionel Messi, without hesitation! I'd love to play with him and Xavi.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Luis Suarez all play at a really impressive level and are consistently excellent.

On a studio film, you don't have to worry about running out of film or messing up your costumes; you have five other sets of it. Studio films make you the most comfortable so you can just act.

I'm the type of guy that's always having a joke, messing around, but when it comes to the serious stuff, you know, your head's on the game.

It is Method on 'This is England;' it is. But it can't be Method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything.

Women are more meticulous and methodical. But on the other hand, I feel if you go on a male-dominated set, which is mostly any other set, you don't ask how it was to be on a male-dominated set.

I would never put on a Mets hat. Only if I was playing a Met as part of the job. Which, actually, I did a long time ago.

That's obviously not easy. I don't want to leave the Mets; I don't want to not play in New York. It's not at all that I want to leave, but that's the business.

I cook all the time, and I cook all different kinds of things, but never Mexican at home. That's my work.

Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.