Quotes About Effort

If there's a loose ball, dive on the floor. If you can take a charge, do that. The playoffs are all about scratching. Whatever it takes.

One person can't bring you to the playoffs or win a championship.

I want to fight for the playoffs.

It's not easy to make the playoffs, and I think a lot of people overlook that. They think it's a piece of cake, but it's definitely not.

We owe it to the fans and we owe it to ourselves to give it everything we have to try and put ourselves in the playoffs.

If you commit to the defensive end of the floor, you're going to have a chance to win every night. And if you're a great defensive team, you're going to go to the playoffs.

When I come off the bench, I have that intensity and that effort. That's something all of us guys are trying to bring, but especially the guys off the bench. Because we can play a role in any game, let alone the playoffs.

The players have got to make the plays.

I need all the energy I can to go out and make plays.

I'm just going to go play football - fly around and make some plays. That's all that matters.

You have to be able to make plays.

I just do my job; I'm out there to make plays and play football.

It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

I just approach everything by just doing the best job I can do and try to be a pleasant person.

The films I've done with all my heart have gone on to become huge hits. When I set out to do a 'mass masala' intending to please B and C centres, it bombs.

I'm pleased to have been able to contribute to some good team performances.

Some songs take months to get right, but 'Let Her Go' was so easy. I was no more pleased with it than any other song I'd written.

You only can do what you can do. Just make sure you're pleased with it as a individual and then you know some people gonna like it some people ain't, that's just part of the game.

Performing well's always pleasing, especially when the team gets the win and you can help contribute to it.

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

I'm going to miss shots. I'm going to make plenty of mistakes. It's not going to be perfect.