Quotes About Effort

Take it from someone who's never managed to keep a New Year's resolution: making commitments is easy. Keeping them is what is hard.

I think I'm a common man for the most part, but I don't work as hard as most people that I know.

The amount of effort and energy that goes into being an actor is something that I can't compare to anything else.

I was always a little bit compared to Jurgen because my core of working is working against the ball.

You have to be ready to compete. Because lots of people dream that dream, to be the best at something. But are you ready to commit to the hard work that it takes to get there? For me, it just became a part of my life, and it was what it was. Another day, another basketball practice or another game.

Any time you can go out and compete is better than getting on a practice court.

All I can do is turn up and compete.

Anywhere you go, you're gonna have to compete. In life, you're gonna go get a job. You're gonna have to compete with the next person.

I'm going to try to go out and do my best, and I'm going to try and compete every play.

We compete so hard and that changes the whole ballgame.

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.

I was in the American League for 16, 17 years, and I think it's a really tough league to compete in.

Every night, I go out there, and I try to compete and win.

When you're off the court, that's when it's time to talk or whatever you want to do. But once it goes up, it's time to compete.

When I'm on the court, I just compete.

But I am a basketball player going out there to compete, I am going to try to win no matter what. That is just in my blood.

It's all about competing.

I just got to keep competing and keep believing.

I love competing. I mean, if you ask anybody around me, my coaches, they know I love competing. I hate losing.

People outside the organization or outside of football, they don't know how hard it is to win in this league, such a high-caliber athletes and elite group of people competing each week.

I enjoy battling, and I enjoy competing.

I think second place is the first loser in the competition.

Competition matters.

Anytime you get a better competition level, it's always better for you because you want to get the best out of yourself, and you want to compete against the best.