Quotes About Professionalism

If a team wants me to go to the minors to get ready and prepare, that's what I'm going to do and I will show that I should be pitching in the major leagues.

If you got a stuntman that can do it better than me, go do it. But if they can't do it better than me, I'm doing it myself - plain and simple.

We like to party but to be the best partiers in the world you've gotta be serious, you've gotta plan that stuff out. You've gotta wake up the next day and catch that plane to the next show and perform a great show.

Baking as a career is very different to baking as a hobby. Business plans are needed and it's not all plain sailing.

I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.

Women need to make sure they know what they're talking about. You can't just plant yourself in front of a camera and be pretty because that's just not good enough. It's just not a respectable way about building one's career - in sports or anywhere on TV.

Every actor has to deal with what's on his plate, and I try to deal with doing the best work possible with the most challenging scripts. I don't base it on whether it's a feature film or a TV-movie or cable.

Kellan Gillis was the first celebrity that I worked with - that didn't hurt. Working out after that with Jennifer Lopez was huge in terms of just the platform it gives you. So I think when you get those opportunities, you have to be respectful of them, and you have to try not to just cash out.

I can't cheat on my performances. For me my films are like my babies. I nurture them and look after them like a mother. I can't play truant from shooting even for a day. When I agree to do a film I am with it all the way.

I'm just here to play baseball. I'm not going to be on social media or doing any commercials. I'm just here to do my job.

I think it's a travesty that the NBA can't just tell these guys to play basketball two days in a row. It's just a joke to me. We flew commercial, and we were able to play back-to-back.

My only focus and our only focus as players is to be focused on our job, in the gym and do what we're supposed to do. We get paid a lot of money to play basketball, and that's what we got to focus on.

My job's to play basketball. My job's not to be here to be friends with anybody.

With the ball I can run 37kmh but I've never been timed without it because my job is to play football. I'm not an athlete.

I think people admire us for dedicating our lives to be professional athletes. But we need more people to come and watch club games; we need to encourage girls to play football from an early age.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

My business is to come out here and play football.

You've got guys who will kiss up, and I'm not gonna kiss up. I don't need to kiss anyone's butt. I'm here to play golf.

One thing I really liked about David Winfield, man, just... the way he played the game, and such a class act he was on and off the field.

We never played ball for money. We played because it was fun and I was good at it. But a lot of guys get paid big money to play this game, and I have a family I want to help out. But basketball will always be a game to me.

I'm not a freak show. I'm a hockey player.

There are already gay players in the NFL and have been for a while.

The Heartbreakers were what you imagine being in a band would be like - best buddies and great players and guys who took it all really seriously.

Jose Mourinho knows how to control to big players in the dressing room, to control egos. He's done it all his life and knows how to work it into the team.