Jack Butland Quotes

What I can control is how I'll perform when I got to a team.

I really don't care about stats. I don't care about any of that stuff. I just care about performing each and every weekend and helping my team win ball games.

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

The main thing is how we play and how we work in training.

Whenever you're playing on the pitch, you have to step up to the plate and perform.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

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

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.

Defense is the thing we can control and bring every night. But I want to be great on both ends.

In order to win a championship, you've got to be consistent.

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

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.

You've got to go out there and play your best. It's about what you do on the football field.

My business is to perform on the pitch, to put in performances and that is what I want to do.

I like working on the pitch, staying focused.

When I'm on the pitch, I just want to give as good a performance as possible.

In a way, the manager plays as big part, but you, as a player, are on the pitch. He cannot make you run if you don't want to; he cannot make you make the right decision in the heat of the moment.

To me, every play counts. To me, how I play in individuals, how I play in practice, that's how I'm going to play in the game.

It doesn't matter where we play. It doesn't matter whether the season has finished or not. We have to play the same way, stay focused all of the time and go there to win.

It's important to take every game seriously, whatever the competition is.

Practice don't win games.

If you are a team that wants to win something, you have to play for 90 minutes with concentration and focus.