Tommy Ramone Quotes

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

All of us are professionals and no player wants not to play.

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.

I am out there to put on the best performance I can for my sponsors and my team and my fans.

I appreciate the level of professionalism and talent that I get to be around every night, eight times a week.

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

For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.

I'm just very impressed with the way Jimmy Anderson goes about his business.

Contract year or not a contract year, I'm playing the exact same way and focused on the exact same things.

To see professionals working hard every day, making a big commitment to the club with a desire to improve every day is something I want. That's the only way they can play with me.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If people aren't happy with that, I can't give any more.

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.

Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed!

We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.

When I am at work, there is no need for me to deliver anything but results.

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

I wanted, if anything else, Brodus Clay to be remembered as somebody who got you out of your seat and I think that'll be remembered so you've got to come 100% with that.

I get paid to do a job that I love to do, so I'm going to go out there and give it my all every night.

I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.