Phil Jones Quotes

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

Everything that I tried to act in my life, I put in the time and effort to try and get better at it.

I try every day to become a better player - passing more to open the game - I try everything because you can always be better.

I'm a piano player and singer who can't play piano very well or sing very well. That isn't a recipe for success. I have to get better.

I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

I want to get better and better at my craft.

You can always play better.

When I came into Test cricket, I was good but not as good as I am now.

I'm a practice player. The more I practice, the more confident I become.

I look to improve every time I play, whether batting or bowling.

There are so many things that I've just continued to get better at in my game.

I'm always learning and getting better with my technique.

We can always play better.

I'm going to keep perfecting my craft and keep getting better.

I need to vary up my game, and I'm working on that. I know I need to get better.

My greatest high was to hit a ball well, to try to do it perfectly, to try different things, whether they came off or not.

I've proved what I can do in bits, but I need to get better at everything.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

You only get better by playing.