Alun Wyn Jones Quotes

Whoever I suit up for... I'm going to do my job.

You're not going to look at Paul and see him slacking, not carrying his weight. All the other stuff, 'Paul doesn't lead' and all that? That's fine. Go grab guys that lead, then. Let me help them lead.

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.

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

Jimmy Butler embodies those qualities just like the Heat players of our great past have done before. Alonzo Mourning, Chris Bosh, Udonis Haslem. He just embodies these qualities of professionalism, of work, of accountability, of being reliable. And he leads.

Whatever role I have had on the management side I pride myself on having done my best in the job. I have never shied away from that responsibility.

You know, I have a responsibility to my team that if I'm going to be on the floor, then I have to make a difference.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch.

I'm hired to do a job. They expect me to do a job, and that job requires me to get my butt up and get back to the huddle, get the play and go do it another time. And until I can't physically get up, I'm going to do that.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

I know my role on this team, and I'm expected to prepare and to perform every week and play well. I relish that opportunity - to be somebody the guys can count on week in and week out, to play really well. That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.

Whatever plays are called, I'm just going out there and doing my job.

This is what we get paid to do, is to bring it every week, and I hope the guys would say I bring it every week. I mean, I love this game, and I bring energy.

My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.

As a player, I have this feeling - and I think every player thinks this - that I am responsible for how my team-mates feel. I just want to do my best and give 100 per cent, and if I do that, they will feel better and think, 'I will give 100%.'

My job is just to go out and play hard every day.

The coaches can only put us in the right position, but it's up to the players to take the action.

The crucial thing for me is that I stick to my job.

If things are not going well on the field, then it's up to me to lead by example.

As a captain and as a player I wanted to lead the team well and score runs, because I know the team still depends on me very much.

I try to prove that I am an important player every day and game after game.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.