Quotes About Effort

One thing I can say - and anybody can say from any team I've ever played on - is that when I get out there I'm going to play as hard as I possibly can, whether it's on one leg or two legs or whatever.

The more you win, the more you get paid. I'm not trying to get paid less money. I've worked too hard to get into this tax bracket.

All the money my mom spent on lessons paid off.

At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

Once you start going out putting expectation levels on yourself, you lose the concept of trying to win the game.

Everything you do in life is a process that you work at it, and you can't give up.

There's instances where you do everything right and you work hard and things don't work out. That's part of life, and it ends up being life lessons for some guys.

If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.

I worked on perfect beauty for a lifetime.

All I can do is lift to the best of my ability and then let whatever happens, happen.

What's heavy for me when I lift, probably isn't actually a lot of weight.

As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.

You have to go to your limit to progress.

Oh, I have very limited will power. I wish I could change that. I am working on it, though. I am too easygoing.

I want to bring the players to their limits.

I never found it easy to learn my lines. It was slog, slog, slog.

I can't do nothing just a little.

Some guys have all this talent, and you wonder why they can't put it all together. Well, they don't do any of the little things.

I just go out and play my game. Just making sure I keep doing those little things, like playing with toughness, that's just me.

I pride myself on being someone who does the little things and works hard.

You've just got to have to put the work in. Put work first. Put the hours in and the time in, and do your job. And when you get a little time off, you can go out and have a little fun. But you have to make sure you get done what you need to get done first off.

Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

It took time at Everton to build a team so that when we did go to United or Arsenal or Liverpool, we went with a good chance of getting a result.