Alun Wyn Jones

Ultimately, we are professional rugby people, and we focus on the rugby. That's the easy bit. We are not politicians, so we don't have to delve too much into that.

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.

I was watching the Five Nations as a kid, I'm very fortunate to have been able to pull the red jersey on a few times, and now I'm able to assist the team, assist the young players coming through, and help the guys who do have the ambition to play more for Wales.

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.

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

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.

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

I am competitive because it is fun, a mentality thing, and it is something you have to be in this job.

You have to be competitive in the job I am in.

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.

The higher up the rugby ladder you go, the differences between winning and losing games get smaller and smaller.