Quotes About Effort

If I'm doing a job, I'll give it 100%, and that job gets my absolute focus, and everything else goes to the side. Then, that job is finished, I'll concentrate on the next job.

I just concentrate on my performance and the football.

After I make some bad shots, it makes me bear down and concentrate more.

I want to concentrate on baseball, which is the best thing I know how to do.

It doesn't matter where you find yourself, you have to focus and concentrate and work for the team.

I can't really affect anything else other than when I'm on the pitch, so I try and concentrate on that.

In the U.S. I can concentrate all the time on playing tennis, doing my training and all the important stuff.

The concern is that when you are playing against a team that has a lot of quality you know that you can work hard for a long time and then in a second they can produce some quality necessary to score a goal.

I just focus and concern myself with playing as I can.

The way I do that is to keep coming up with good songs and when I do a concert, I make sure I give a good performance. It's not rocket science.

'Turn Me Loose' was Off-Broadway, and now we are making a concerted effort to figure out how to get it to on Broadway.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

The only chance I have to be successful is if I'm in better condition than the other guy.

Sometimes there are the conditions for winning. Sometimes not.

Marriage requires effort and time and talking and connecting. You have to maintain it.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

I believe when you work hard, even if you are a mediocre actor, the audience connects to you.

You will never, I think, fully conquer the play. Every night, you see this Everest before you. It's that two, three hours and the audience, and you'd better tell the truth.

I loved my work, and it was a conscious decision to give my best all the time.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies.

I am making a conscious effort to ensure that my acting potential gets tapped in every project I do.

I will make a conscious effort to pick up roles which give a social message besides being entertaining.

I don't make a conscious effort about being a fashionista.