Joe Thomas Quotes

I am a professional footballer and as long as I'm able to make a contribution, I'll be doing all I can to stay at the top.

Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

I don't care what age I am. If I continue to train and feel good and enjoy the locker room and this organization wants me and I feel I can do it, I'm going to do it, no matter what my age.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

Of course we all dream about doing big, playing for big clubs, but I wanted to play football because of the love for the game.

It's not ideal for me to miss any time. I love the game. I want to be out there. I can't stand sitting the back watching games. I want to be out there fighting with my team.

I want to play football. I'm not just here to pick up my salary and do nothing. I'm young, I'm still 23 and still have a very long career, and I want to play games.

I want to play as long as possible at the highest level.

Dallas was top-notch professional and they wanted to win every game.

I'm not here just to walk two rounds or four rounds and just show up. I want to be able to be competitive, and I truly believe I can still be competitive when I'm playing well and feeling good.

If I can run, I'm not going to sit out any game. I'm here to play football, not to watch and collect a check.

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

As a footballer, you always want to test yourself against the best.

I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

The Olympics were great, because you had to make the team, and then go to the games. Now, I don't know, these guys today don't want to do anything like that.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

I think any football is a guy that is able to one, be able to be humble and hungry off the field, but at the same time on the football field understand what they have to get done and be a little bit ferocious.

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.

For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.