Quotes About Effort

Each day I give it my all, whether good or bad.

If you're not ready then you can play bad, and you only have one shot at the Australian Open each year, so you have to do the best you can.

God knows I tried to make it earlier in life, but with all due respect to myself, nothing I ever did was any good.

You don't get anywhere without hard work. The earlier you understand that, the better.

It's something that you have to teach your children from an early age: to work hard for what they want.

Life will not make allowance for you, but it will pay you what you earn.

You can't win fame; you have to earn it. If you're given fame without working for it, then you're not going to be ready for it.

Everything I've gotten, I've had to work twice as hard to earn.

If you play well, then you make yourself a great name and the money comes on its own. You earn money for what you did.

It's not like everything was given to me. I had to really work hard for it and earn it.

Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to earn everything.

If we wanted something, we had to earn it.

It amazes me how quickly you can earn money.

Everyone has to earn their money one way or the other.

At the end of the day, it's me who has to earn the right to play more.

I've never been a basketball prodigy. I've always had to work, earn my way. And that's the way I want it to be.

There's a lot of crazy stuff in this league, and you got to go out and you got to earn your role out every year.

I want to earn it, I don't want anything given to me.

I think there are a lot of good players in the top 20, top 30 that are top-10 players. You got to get there. You got to earn it.

No one can take away what I've done in this game. Everything I've done, I've earned it so far.

I love when I feel like I earned something because I know, like, I don't feel that way for nothing.

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

It's hard to go out there and protect something that you earned.

I won a lot of money in UFC. I earned that money. The money wasn't given to me as a present. I earned every dollar of it.