Harry Winks Quotes

I'm working hard since the beginning of my career.

Up to 30 years old, I was carried by natural talent, combined with a good level of professionalism. But since turning 30, I've gained a desire to sweat in the real sense of the word, to understand where I need to improve. Competitiveness, now, is essential.

You have to work your way up - that's how I was brought up and what I believe in: working hard.

And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.

I don't want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter.

It's important to put all I have into my career.

I've always viewed politics the following way: if you do a good job at the job you're doing, you'll have opportunities to do other things in the future. Maybe things you never envisioned.

When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.

Porto helped me quite a bit but I worked really hard, with lots of enthusiasm and humility and with my mind always focused on returning to Real Madrid. It was a fantastic year on a personal level.

Logically, if there was a chance to improve and go to a bigger club, it would be a good opportunity, although there are few clubs bigger than Liverpool.

If I had stayed at City I think I would have been someone who simply filled in when I was required. I'd rather go elsewhere and play regularly. Be a bigger part of a smaller team.

I want to have my career, not sit on the bench. I want to work hard, to push myself. I want to play.

You're always working to try and climb that ladder.

When I was at Villa and I was captain there and I had the opportunity to go to City, it played on my mind I wouldn't be as pivotal. So initially I didn't want to go, but a lot of things happened behind the scenes and I realised I had to go.

In any profession, you can't reach the top without loving what you do.

'Workaholics' seems like it's doing wonders for my career.

Having done what I've done at 24 years old, I'm not the kind of person who likes to be out of work.

My ambitions are just to keep working hard and, when I do get on, to make an impression.

I want to work as hard as I can and continue to make a career for myself.

Keeping your head down and doing the best job you can in the beginning gives you the opportunity to be evaluated on the basis of the contributions you are making. [Then], when you feel strongly about your work or about a position, you'll be given more attention [than] if you hadn't done that constantly.

I'm not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I'm still battling it out in the trenches.