Quotes About Effort

It really didn't matter how much work I had to put in... I was always going to give my best. And I think that if a lot of kids can realize that, and stick with that mindset, they won't get so stressed about certain things, and they can just live and play freely.

It's always stressful working on a new piece, but it concentrates the energy.

Humpty' was something I had to do. I had to stretch myself as an actor.

When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit.

If multiple starting pitchers underperform at the same time, it's always going to leave you in a stretch where it's hard to play better than .500 baseball.

The only difference between a flexible person and one who is not is that the flexible person has to go farther to get the same stretch.

I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

Strictly' is a journey. I haven't danced before but I'm putting the practice hours in, whether it shows or not.

The response to 'Kadamban' was strictly average; all of us know about it. The result didn't match our efforts and it was a let-down. We slogged hard and gave it our all, but failure is part of the game.

I did 'Strictly' with my whole heart, my whole soul. I genuinely put everything into it. To be part of it is so amazing.

I have delivered sometimes, and the other times, I have not. I have taken it in my stride as a player and learnt from my mistakes.

A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes, even the best is not enough.

People strike out. I strike out a lot - it happens. Just got to keep working.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Strike and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys.

I'm not trying to strike everybody out.

Once it gets to two strikes, it's time to battle, put something in play, and try to get the job done.

You are not always going to have your A game; you might have your D game. You have to find a way to throw strikes no matter what.

It's rare that you sit down for an episode of 'Psych' and think, 'Oh, that was just okay.' For the most part, we're either really knocking the ball around, or we're striking out and failing miserably, but you don't ever want to be anywhere in between.

There's more to pitching than just striking guys out, but also it is a big reason why you can have success.