ALUN WYN JONES

We are very conscious of our poor record against the SANZAR nations. We've simply not done well enough against New Zealand or South Africa.

That's the great thing about this sport: it's always different.

Apparently, I'm the angriest man. I don't know. It's just an interpretation. If it was someone else, they might be called focused or competitive. I'm not that angry or grumpy, but if you want to say I'm angry because I'm focused or competitive, then that's okay.

I wear my stripes on my sleeve, and I am not afraid to show them.

People often ask whether you'd alter anything about your life. I can honestly say I wouldn't change a thing.

When I retire, my CV might have a few holes, things I haven't achieved that I would have felt I needed to do, but I won't know if I did need to do them until I retire.

There's always a team behind the team. We've got our off-field guys looking after us.

For me, representing Wales really was a dream.

There is ways and means to vent, and sometimes they can be the wrong ways.

I look back at all the contracts I've had, and I never assumed I would get another one. Honestly. I don't take anything for granted. Nothing.

I'd love to feature for the Barbarians. I'd love to win a Champions Cup, and I'd love to get to another World Cup and make a fist of it: get to a World Cup final at least and see what could have been, particularly after 2011 when Wales reached the semi-finals.

I know part of me is going to die when I stop playing rugby.

You have to be competitive in the job I am in.

As you get older, you realise you can't worry about mistakes; you just worry about playing, and I've been doing that.

From a personal point of view, I wouldn't have been happy with one cap but would always have been happy with two. I never counted on getting to 80.

It's great having a good academy, but if you can't pay the players you're producing, what's the point of it?

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

I am always optimistic.

I'm thankful for the collaboration between the WRU and Ospreys, which will look after my best interests and enables me to play the best rugby possible.

I'll know when to retire when I don't want to push myself anymore.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be playing regularly and saying they do not have a niggle. It is the nature of the beast, what you get when you play a lot of rugby: you have to get another niggle to forget about the one you already have.

I'll look at stats after a game to see the work I've done in different areas.

Every cap is my first, and every one is my last... that's the way I look at it.

When it comes to talking about beating certain teams, we can be narrow-minded when we need to look at the bigger picture.

I am competitive because it is fun, a mentality thing, and it is something you have to be in this job.