Quotes About Effort

We always have great practices, and the competition is high, and the intensity is high; it's just about doing that now in a game and sustaining it for 48 minutes.

It's a tough pill to swallow, when you come so close to winning and you fall short.

This is a hard enough sport when you're giving 100 percent. If you're giving anything less than that, it'll swallow you up.

I can sway the series with outstanding play, but we're all going to have to play over our heads.

The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men's thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law.

I swear I am the worst gamer. I try, I try, and I try, but for some reason, you know, it - yeah. I got - everybody beats me. Let's just put it that way.

If you don't want to sweat, stay on the couch.

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

What you sweat is what you get.

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

I don't want to be idolized, I just want to play. And to do that you have to run and sweat.

Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.

I'm into hard work. I never had the best talent or the best jumper. I've always been about dirt and sweat.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.

Dancing is a sweat job.

I think it's incredible what I've done. A lot of sweat. But as an innovator, I look back and can't help but go, 'Damn, there's things I could've done better, you know?'

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

The lack of sweat to get a win is probably a record for me.

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

I can't actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don't think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I'm reading, I think, 'Oh good. That's what's supposed to be happening.'

In every team, you have to win the respect of your team-mates, working a lot and really sweat blood.