Chris Smalling Quotes

Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: 'Just Do It.'

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

My approach to this game for 14 years that I've been in this league is to play hard and give my 100 percent, whatever I have.

I think people know that every time I go out there, I leave it all in the ring, regardless. So I think there's a certain respect with that and I think that's just grown over the years because I feel like over the course of my career... people know that I never take a night off.

Even before I joined Manchester United, I knew of Wazza as a hard worker.

I'm going to show up and do my job to the best of my abilities every day, every week.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film.

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character.

No matter how talented you are or naturally gifted you are, there's no substitute to hard work if you got to maintain standards.

The first thing I learned from Jeter is to be the same no matter if you are doing good or bad. It is kind of like, play hard every day, and don't take anything for granted.

No matter what the circumstances are, I've never seen Tom Brady come out and not give it all in practice. There's never any change in him. Whenever he's out on the field, he's giving it all, and he's just such a competitor.

I can separate very well. I can do everything I need to do as a player. I'm not the fastest guy always, or the strongest guy, or the biggest guy, but I always get the job done. I'm a workaholic.

It is impossible to follow Cristiano Ronaldo in training. When we arrive, he is already training, when we leave he is still training, I have never seen a player like it.

Regardless of what happened off the field, that doesn't change what I do on the field and my performance.

I'm kind of a grinder.

I'm still in the gym every day for training, putting in the same hard work every week. That's the only way I know how to do it.

If you play for Manchester United, there is always someone out there getting ready to take your jersey. It is up to you to fight and make sure you keep it.

One thing I did inject was a different work ethic: Guys, no, we don't rehearse once or twice a month, we rehearse every day after work and on weekends, and that's how we're gonna get better. And everybody adopted that work ethic, and it did pay off.

I've been working hard a lot since the beginning of my career, and to play 10 years consecutively in big clubs is not easy, and I try to give my best every season.