Kieran Trippier Quotes

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

My talent in playing football was not the highest but I was very hard-working, interested to learn and get better, and this focus made me better and better.

Of course everyone has those moments of frustration now and then, when you say, 'I wish I could play well already - or just stop.' But it's too much trouble to stop just for a moment of frustration. It is when you keep going that you make the most progress.

To see professionals working hard every day, making a big commitment to the club with a desire to improve every day is something I want. That's the only way they can play with me.

I just have to keep working hard.

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

I remember hearing Will Smith, back when he was just a rapper, saying, 'When all the other rap stars are in bed, I'm practicing my rapping.' I try to be like that. There is always something to improve.

I was a second-division B player, and I've had to work very hard. I tell the players, 'The moment we stop working hard on this, as soon as we stop dedicating hours to this, we'll fall.'

I never took things for granted. I always told myself to keep working hard, come to the ballpark ready to play, and one day I'll get a chance to play.

I'm a firm believer that you can only get better by working hard.

I'm just going to keep working hard on and off the training field.

Whenever I get the opportunity to play I do the best I can.

I give my best every day in training and in games; this is the only way that I know how to play football.

Put in the work in every day, put in the work in training, and it will show on the field.

You just have to keep working hard in training.

I don't really see myself as a talented player. I just like working hard, and working hard brings great achievements.

As a footballer, if you work hard, then everything else falls into place.

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.