Matt Sydal Quotes

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

The truth is I've trained myself for much of my career.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

For a long time, I played for me, for my career.

Since I'm a professional, every day I try to become a better player.

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.

My life has always been about making certain I accrue the skills necessary to make my ambitions real.

I want to keep working hard and looking to progress.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

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

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.

I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

You could have whipped my butt in 1964, but I went out and worked a helleva lot harder than you did over the years. As a result, a lot of people worked for me.