Jan Vertonghen Quotes

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.

As players, we were paid to do a job we loved - in my case, at the club I supported. And nothing I did could be allowed to interfere with that. The manager would not have permitted it.

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

For all the fun, don't forget: I always knew when to put my golf balls down and practice.

Jeter was no choir boy, Jeter has lived a life. But it's always stayed separate from what happened when he showed up at Yankee Stadium. And that's really to his credit.

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

My feelings are, if you're gonna lead a rock n' roll lifestyle, don't let it affect your work. I know I can stay up all night and still come in the next day and write a song, and nothing will stop me from doing it. I expect the same from everyone else.

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

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.'

When the time comes to work, I work.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

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

I'm not a perfect person who doesn't mess up, eat bad, not work out - I do all those things. It's just for the most part, when I'm working, I don't feel like I have the choice. I have to bring my A-game.

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

I have a strong work ethic.

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.

I am the extreme member of the band because I never go out after the show. It's my rule.

I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.

Always take your job seriously, never yourself.

I have the ablest staff that ever served any President in my memory. There's not a playboy among them. They aren't sitting around drinking whiskey at 11 o'clock at night. They aren't walking around with their zippers unbuttoned.

I have a good work ethic.