Quotes from Alun Wyn Jones

I know there are certain things I may never achieve depending on whether I stay at the Ospreys or go.

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.

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.

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.

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

We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory.

Going out there as a forward can shorten your career somewhat, whereas if you go out as a back, you will be OK.

To a point, family does that and a couple of life experiences both positive and negative that have definitely altered my perception on rugby. Whereas my first 28-29 years, rugby was the entire focus, which was not that healthy, now you realise what is really important.

You're as good as your next game, not your previous, so I'll focus on the next one.

It's great having a good academy, but if you can't pay the players you're producing, what's the point of it?

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

I never counted on playing rugby: I was just another fat kid chasing an egg. It has gone pretty well.

I'll look back on my career as a whole and at parts of it and say I should have enjoyed that more. I suppose that's my own fault.

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.

Ultimately, as players, we are inside the tent, and we have got to deal with what happens between the white lines.

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

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

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.

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.

It doesn't matter how young or old you are, and whatever jersey you wear, you realise the derby games prick up the hairs on the backs of people's necks.

I usually don't talk for three days after a defeat. Then you have an epiphany and realise it's just a game.

As you get older, you realise you can't worry about mistakes; you just worry about playing, and I've been doing that.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?