Thomas Dooley Quotes

Obviously, there are nights in any job when you don't want to be there, but that's when the pride factor comes in.

If you want to give 100 per cent, you have to feel that you are important for the manager.

You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.

My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.

This is what we get paid to do, is to bring it every week, and I hope the guys would say I bring it every week. I mean, I love this game, and I bring energy.

I think I'm fairly demanding, probably. You have to feel that when you're appointed to a job you have to do the job.

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.

Irrespective of the tasks given to me, I have done my best to discharge my duties.

I try to prove that I am an important player every day and game after game.

Work ethic starts where everyone understands that you're putting that extra foot forward in order to be the best.

Every day, I have to work and show the coach I work well and I deserve my place.

Ultimately I'm the captain, but if someone can't get themselves in the right state to play, it's not my job. If they don't want to come into work determined to be the best they can be, they're in the wrong job.

Whoever I suit up for... I'm going to do my job.

Every day, you want to come in and contribute when your name is in the lineup.

My priority is to perform the job for which I am in the squad.

I'm not particularly into people giving me credit. It's not something I think about. It's not important to me. The only thing that's important is if I'm doing my job properly on the pitch for the team and for the manager.

There are days when there's no will to do anything. It's not easy for someone in my profession, because you are always meant to be in the limelight. I can't just not turn up, as I will come across as unprofessional, and people won't work with me anymore.

We know to come to work every day. It just makes everything that much more fun.

When you are professional and working in a club like Everton, the obligation is to be motivated, to be focused.

You're not going to look at Paul and see him slacking, not carrying his weight. All the other stuff, 'Paul doesn't lead' and all that? That's fine. Go grab guys that lead, then. Let me help them lead.

I actually really enjoy work ethic.

There's part of you that, when you show up for work, you kick into professional mode and try to do your absolute best.

When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.