Alun Wyn Jones Quotes

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

The biggest thing for me is earning the respect of my fellow players and coaches. I think that is why I was a little bit emotional. You don't get a haka done to you from the brothers for no reason if they don't respect you.

You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down.

I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you.

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.

People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

That's why you play the game. You play the game for your teammates, who really want to play with and for you.

Even more than results, it matters that the players give everything for their shirt, and if they do that whether they're relegated or not, the fans are ready to applaud.

In Chicago, growing up there, that's how we played. You play for something more than just yourself. You play to win, and that's all that really matters.

It's always worth it when you come out here and put on a uniform and step on that field. It's the best feeling you'll ever have.

I've been in this league a long time. The league's not perfect. But I'm definitely proud of a lot of my teammates, coaches, trainers, owners.

I play for the love of football, not for the money.

I'd rather be remembered as a player who came on and impacted a lot of games for England. If I ever take a selfish thought-process of, 'I'm doing this for myself,' then things will be seriously wrong.

I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.

As long as I'm helping the team, I just want to play football.

To wear this shirt, especially with the West Ham badge on it - it takes an honest player, hard-working, a player that leaves everything on the pitch and plays for the crest on the shirt.

It was not easy, but I think Girls' Generation members showed each other a lot of sacrifice, dedication, and responsibility.

You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

I definitely need to do everything I can to help whoever is going to catch the ball.