Jamie Vardy Quotes

We have to play football, not concentrate on other things.

It's nothing, really, for me to be able to say it's overwhelming or anything. It's just - you do the interviews, you interact with everybody, and you make sure that, at the end of the day, you focus on why you're here, and that's to play football and make sure I can contribute as a teammate.

I just do my job; I'm out there to make plays and play football.

I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration.

One of my strengths is focusing on football, and even in the summer, I try not to switch off too much.

On the pitch we tend to forget the things that happen off the field. I try to focus a lot on what I'm doing.

When I'm on the field, family-wise, family matters, whatever off-the-field issues, I'm not worried about.

When you're playing to get into the playoffs, your contract is the last thing on your mind.

Nothing is more important to me than the work itself. If I feel I am getting swayed too much, I take a step back… My focus is also on the performance.

I'm someone who always comes on the court no matter what's going on in my life. It's all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don't let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what's going on or what people are talking about.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don't really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.

Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

What I have to do is train hard, be at the disposal of the coach and make the best of what I have here every day so when I'm called upon I'll be ready.

I can control how hard I play. This is how I respond to coaching. This is how I respond to my teammates. If I focus on that, the other things that come with that are going to come.

Number one, I tell the quarterbacks, do your job. You've gotta do your job before you can even worry about anybody else or any other situation.

Even when I was growing up as a young boy, when I was playing schoolboy football, there were other guys who were as good as I was, maybe some even better technically. But I was prepared to stick to what was going to make me become a professional football player when I left school, and that was a lot of sacrifice and because my attitude was right.

You need to have laser focus on doing your job.

At the end of the day, all I can focus on is doing what I need to do, as a player, to help the team win.

That's the most important thing - once you're on the pitch, you need to do your job properly.

Accountability is huge and everybody has a job to do on every play and that's the really only thing you focus on.

There's a standard here as you step on the field as a Broncos defender.