Adam Thielen Quotes

There's always room for every player to improve.

As an athlete, success is not just about winning; it is about working hard and giving it all you have. I have always taken one match at a time and worked hard; when I succeeded, I worked further on the aspects of the game which worked for me; when I failed, I listed out my weaknesses and worked on them.

I've been a good player my whole life and expect to continue to work hard and continue to do everything that I have done and try not to take any steps back. Try to stay the course and be the best player and the best teammate and hopefully the best leader I can be, and play as well as I can.

I need to always improve and that is why I work hard to try and keep my place in the squad.

You just have to always go out and continue to work hard, watch the film, see what you did wrong from an offensive unit and individually. Then, you just have to go out and do better the next time out. That is what sports is all about.

There is a lot of room for improvement for everybody, no matter who you are, so that is all I did, really: practice.

I'm going to go out there and work hard. I'm going to get better, I'm going to learn from my mistakes and I'm going to be there when my team needs me.

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

For me, I've learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and what you need to do.

Even when I have a good game, you can still do things better.

The only way to get to be the team you want to be is to get better every day.

I have to keep working hard and improving every day.

For me, dropping down to League One and then getting into the Championship with Huddersfield was the right pathway. It was one where I knew I had to learn, I had to get better if I wanted to get any higher and I think that mentality's helped me.

I am only trying to improve as a player with each tournament, each game, each opportunity.

I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.

I'm just working every day to improve.

Nobody is 100 percent every play, you know - eight, nine plays down the drive. Sometimes you do look back at it and say, 'Dang, I could have gave more effort there, or I loafed it a little.' But you work on those things.

I have many aspects of my game I need to improve, and that's what I am focusing on. I prefer not to say what they are in public - for me, it's a secret, and I just want to work hard.

You have to work hard each day and try to figure out what's going on and try to get better each day.

That's all I seek every practice and every game, to progress in some way, be coachable and try to be the best I can be for my teammates.

I just focus on what I can do myself, which is work hard and try to compete with the teammates I have.

At the end of the day, I just want to work hard for the team, and if I improve, I'm really satisfied.

All I've done is work hard to get better and better every single year to become the best catcher I can be.

I'm one of those guys who stays behind after practice to try and get better.

I'm just trying to get better each and every game.