Top 97 Quotes & Sayings by Alun Wyn Jones
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I think a global season, moving it a bit towards summer, can only be a good thing from a playing and commercial point of view, but it would take a massive shift, and I do not know if it would happen in my career.
Some losses are harder to take than others. You can lose and play well. It is when you lose and don't do the things you worked on and don't do what you say you would that is difficult.
There's always a team behind the team. We've got our off-field guys looking after us.
Ultimately I'm the captain, but if someone can't get themselves in the right state to play, it's not my job. If they don't want to come into work determined to be the best they can be, they're in the wrong job.
I wear my stripes on my sleeve, and I am not afraid to show them.
I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.
It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby.
I am probably a bit numb upstairs, which is sometimes a good thing.
A bugbear of mine is bragging rights in regional derbies: it would be a lot more worth to the regional game if we did something special in European rugby.
When it comes to talking about beating certain teams, we can be narrow-minded when we need to look at the bigger picture.
I would like to think I am well aware of what the Lions are about and what they represent, but out of respect for your body and the players who are putting up their hands to be selected, you keep it at arm's length.
Happiness is dangerous. If you're happy, you're content, and if you're content, you can become complacent.
There's always going to be questions asked where there is competition, and as long as you can answer those questions, then you're deserving of a place.
You can only use what God gave you.
What you put in, you usually get out. If you are not good enough on the day, fine, but if you put in everything you have, you usually get a decent result. When you lose, it motivates you to go again, not dwell on the past.
Going out there as a forward can shorten your career somewhat, whereas if you go out as a back, you will be OK.
I like to think I am a happy angry person, if that makes sense.
I am paid to play, and the coaches are paid to plan, and that is what they have to do.
Without being too profound, I never dreamt of getting 100 caps for Wales.
Losing hurts, it always hurts, and it should hurt.
There are real people on the pitch. We're not commodities. Well, maybe we are to some degree, but it's the team which creates business. Some people don't appreciate that.
Ultimately, as players, we are inside the tent, and we have got to deal with what happens between the white lines.
Things come and go - there's win, losses, and injuries, but you get back on the horse - but I appreciate what I've done more.
We are very conscious of our poor record against the SANZAR nations. We've simply not done well enough against New Zealand or South Africa.
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
You're not going to please everyone, but then, it's not about pleasing people: it's about winning rugby games.
I am a big believer that change is good.
A draw is the lesser of two evils. A loss or a draw, then obviously we are going to take the draw.
My wife says to me, 'You have achieved a lot'... yeah, I do know. But... there are a couple of things I haven't.
I got to a stage in my mid-20s where I was focusing on 'what's next, what's next,' and sometimes you don't enjoy what you should.
I've no regrets. I don't think you can afford to.
You cannot expect teams to be up for a final every Saturday, but you have to in the Six Nations, and that is the difficulty we have.
I am competitive because it is fun, a mentality thing, and it is something you have to be in this job.
People often ask whether you'd alter anything about your life. I can honestly say I wouldn't change a thing.
I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?
We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory.
I find it hard to believe that anyone could be playing regularly and saying they do not have a niggle. It is the nature of the beast, what you get when you play a lot of rugby: you have to get another niggle to forget about the one you already have.
It is easy to overthink things, and I am good at that.
Welsh rugby has done its dirty washing in public. It's nothing new. We're a tribal bunch. If warring parties want to sway public opinion, they do it in the public arena.
I never counted on playing rugby: I was just another fat kid chasing an egg. It has gone pretty well.
From a personal point of view, I wouldn't have been happy with one cap but would always have been happy with two. I never counted on getting to 80.
I've got a family now, which matures you.
When you lose, it motivates you to go again.
You're as good as your next game, not your previous, so I'll focus on the next one.
I'm thankful for the collaboration between the WRU and Ospreys, which will look after my best interests and enables me to play the best rugby possible.
Whatever career you are in, you always have other distractions.
For me, representing Wales really was a dream.
I always want to be first.
I'm not the only one that's joined in the Maro Itoje song, to be honest with you!
I'm very fortunate I've got a good support network.
There are always going to be questions asked when there is competition. As long as you can answer those questions, then you are deserving of a place.
I do not know if I will stay in the game when I do retire; I have got humanity, so I do not know if I will go into law.
It's great having a good academy, but if you can't pay the players you're producing, what's the point of it?
We don't want Welsh rugby to be seen as healthy or upbeat. If we think that, we could become complacent or stagnate.
I don't regret the way I approached things, because otherwise I wouldn't have achieved what I did, but when I look back, I could have enjoyed things more.
Every cap is my first, and every one is my last... that's the way I look at it.
I'd love to feature for the Barbarians. I'd love to win a Champions Cup, and I'd love to get to another World Cup and make a fist of it: get to a World Cup final at least and see what could have been, particularly after 2011 when Wales reached the semi-finals.
I don't compare myself with anyone.
You have to be competitive in the job I am in.
I'm in no position to tell a fan how to support us. What I'd say is keep doing what you're doing; it means a lot to the team.
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