Alun Wyn Jones Quotes

Alun Wyn Jones

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 19, 1985

I am probably a bit numb upstairs, which is sometimes a good thing.

Alun Wyn Jones

I am proud of being a bad loser. Bad losers are winners. That is the way it should be.

Alun Wyn Jones

You're not going to please everyone, but then, it's not about pleasing people: it's about winning rugby games.

Alun Wyn Jones

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.

Alun Wyn Jones

Whatever career you are in, you always have other distractions.

Alun Wyn Jones

I wear my stripes on my sleeve, and I am not afraid to show them.

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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.

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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.

Alun Wyn Jones

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.

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I'll know when to retire when I don't want to push myself anymore.

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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.

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I don't really want followers, to be honest; that's what Twitter is for. I want people who can make their own decisions and look after their own departments.

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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.

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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.

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It's very easy to quantify performances and personal accolades, but ultimately, I'm in a team sport, and it's about winning.

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If we have given everything we can, you are not settling for mediocrity because the better team won. Sometimes you have to have that mindset to be able to improve rather than keep telling yourself you should have won.

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I did GCSE's and A-levels. I did my finals after the Lions tour in 2009 to get my law degree. So I've always had an eye on life beyond playing, irrelevant of the period in my career.

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As individuals, we don't sometimes let ourselves enjoy things that we possibly should because of ways you want to be perceived, which is a silly thing as well.

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Losing hurts, it always hurts, and it should hurt.

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A draw is the lesser of two evils. A loss or a draw, then obviously we are going to take the draw.

Alun Wyn Jones