John Wall Quotes

You can always be more professional.

You always have to remain professional. I have always done so.

I just have to continue to get better and continue to learn. Whatever unfolds, I want people to know I stayed a pro and performed.

One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally.

No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity.

Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

You have to be professional and think about the future.

I've acted professionally since I was 16.

I don't want to be known as an unprofessional actor. There was a time I was considered unprofessional, to a certain extent. I was very uncomfortable about that.

I'm going to stay in the gym, stay watching film, stay focused, stay being an all around professional.

It really doesn't matter who I fight. It's about me putting on a good performance and just looking good overall that night.

But I'm professional: if I need to do extra training I do extra training.

I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.

As cricketers and professionals, with the scrutiny that is on us, we have to obviously be careful and behave ourselves.

I just have to make sure I maintain my professionalism.

Remember, you're not always the professional.

I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.

When I play myself, I want to be a slightly better person. It just agrees. Everything I play about myself is kind of true, but it's amplified. We all edit, don't we? If you're self-aware, you stop yourself - you know how to behave properly.

If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their job. So it's vanity but it's also not in a lot of cases. It's being professional.

Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.