Kelly Jones Quotes

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

I didn't understand going to practice two hours early, going hard in practice, and then staying an extra hour after that. But once I started doing it, my game didn't feel right if I didn't do it.

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

I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

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.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

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.'

You only get better by playing.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

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.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

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.

It doesn't matter whether it's the 93rd minute, Giggsy is making his jinky, mazy little runs. You could forgive him for maybe not coming out training every day, because he's done so much in the game, but every day he's out there. He doesn't seem to need a rest.

It's not about making the most shots or even dunking the ball or any of that. It's about being consistent every day you step on the court.

Because I am of a generation and slightly old-fashioned, my bottom line belief is what you do is you rehearse and you work and you own it. Of course, you hone it during the first few performances but once you have it honed, not that you must ever assume it is perfect, part of the craft is being able to repeat that.

What am I missing to be the best in the world? Honestly, nothing in terms of quality, just consistency, and that's not arrogance.

It's natural for players to be relaxed, so you have to be there to say, 'You have to do it again and again and again.'

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'm a player, or I'm a person who needs to practice a lot; otherwise, I don't play well.

I am just trying to keep my performances consistent.

I just focus on getting better every day, putting things right in training and then hopefully what I'm doing right in training I'm doing to show in games as well.