Quotes About Effort

Race walking is hard. Trying to do it while maintaining a conversation is much harder.

You either make dust or eat dust.

When you have results, you can make a difference, and when you make a difference, you can win the Ballon d'Or.

I think that is where my success lies - for whatever I lack in talent, I make up for in hard work.

I'm definitely more of a makeup person than a skincare person. I'd love someone to teach me exactly what to do with my skin, but then again, I am also lazy.

Even if the team is not doing well and I can still pop up with a goal or an assist, then I'm making a difference.

I made a lot of money. It took a lot of time but when I started making money, it really sort of worked well. Things fell into place.

I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.

If the manager thinks there is another player better than you, he is going to play, and this is the way. You have to try to improve and keep fighting and try to change the manager's mind.

If the manager selects me to play, I will always give everything I can.

Coming to Manchester, maybe I didn't show all my potential, but in every game, I'm trying to do my best because it's very important for me, the fans, and the club. Maybe in some games it doesn't work, but I still keep working and trying to improve.

In Manchester, I always worked as I had to. For me, personally, it wasn't all that easy.

I play at Manchester City. I try and give performances for them game after game.

I worked hard when I played for Manchester City, Bolton, even in Fenerbahce.

I'd played some very good games, at Manchester United, at Tottenham Hotspur, but they'd lacked a goal. There've been times when I could have scored myself, but I've played a pass to a team-mate instead.

I hope at Manchester United I can do my best. I will do my best.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

Good teams win in the fall. They don't win in March.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

I don't think anybody is looking at Mario Balotelli and thinking 'I'm going to work as hard as him.'

Sometimes it's better to make a mark than to hit your mark, and I think I realized that early on.

If you leave a mark, if you're liked by people, then the constant work will keep happening.

I should have won more. Definitely. If I practised like Mark Selby I might have done twice as many.

To make a marriage work, you have to want to. If you want to stay with that person, you will. It's simple.