Quotes About Professionalism

Chelsea is a big club with fantastic players; every manager wants to coach a such a big team. But I would never take that job, in respect for my former team at Liverpool, no matter what.

I never take the comments made about me seriously. I just do my work.

I train really hard for each and every fight. I never take anyone lightly.

I never take fights personal and I'm not emotional when I'm fighting.

When I'm home, I never take work calls. If I'm at work, I work; if I'm home that's it, I'm home.

I'm not going to say something I shouldn't. In that way, I was probably the perfect guy to play in New England.

People want something that's going to really separate them - something that will help them keep the job they have, get a new job, and advance their careers.

CNN wants me to tell the news in a way that seems genuine and authentic. They don't want me to be Ron Burgundy.

I will tell my best friends who I'm attracted to, but I'm not going to talk about it in a newspaper... It has nothing to do with my work.

After I joined the Indian cricket team, MS Dhoni advised me that I need to avoid reading the newspapers and should try to stay away from social media as much as possible.

The atmosphere in the newsroom could be pretty poisonous. When I arrived, the people who worked on the 'Six' were sitting there slagging off what had gone out on the 'One.' I thought: 'What is this place? And what are you saying about me?'

I was the boy next door who always knew what it meant to have no money. That changed when I turned professional. I was crazy.

Good players go into a season without a contract for the next year.

It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.

I think everybody is intimidated by Jack Nicholson. But he was really nice to work with.

Tanushree is a very nice girl and I worked with her once. She is very focussed, and I could see how hard-working she was, with dreams in her eyes. She was one of the well-behaved girls on the set.

I'm sure there are some people who still think I'm too much of a nice guy to be a manager but I'm certain that's not an issue.

You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie.

No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.

I respect Demetrious Johnson. I respect him as a human being. He always acts like a professional, he's a nice guy, but that still doesn't mean that I can't say that he's scared to fight me.

I like Vitor Belfort. He's a nice guy and I have nothing against him.

Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.

Luiz Felipe Scolari was a good professional, a nice person, someone you could talk with before and after games. He has a lot of experience and is a good manager.

I found that the nicer and more helpful I was to people I worked with, whether I was 'somebody' or 'nobody' on set, the more fun I had.