Quotes About Effort

You want to take shots you practice thousands and thousands of times. You want to take those same shots in games. The easier you can find those shots, the better.

We can't worry about this person or that person, how many shots people are getting or minutes. We just got to try to win a game.

It's something I've been working on since I started out at Sao Paulo, and over time I've tried to improve my skills. But even when I played in the local academy, I was trying to show off some ability with my feet. I actually scored several free-kicks.

All I can do is try to show people that I can play well and try to change their opinion.

I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.

I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.

When you dance you need an awful lot of energy. Off stage, you learn to conserve.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

I don't want to get into the U.S. Open through the back door. I want to earn it.

It's nice to see the results. You work so hard and you want to see results to back up the work that you've done.

I fail at things all the time. I'm always being told no. I just get back up and try again.

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

It's definitely hard when you're putting in the work and the guy who's starting isn't, especially if he's overhyped or you're not winning. I can't imagine how hard it would be to be that guy's backup.

You can have a bad day but that does not make you a bad team.

You may have good days, there may be more bad days than good days, but on the good days you have to push yourself, get the most out of it as you can.

Sometimes I play better. Sometimes I have a bad game. But as a team, it's not about me.

You can't be the best player if suddenly you play well and the next day you play badly.

If you play badly and lose, you're left with nothing. If you lose but play well, you still have something. You have something to build on.

When you win and you shoot badly, it doesn't really matter. Stats and all the other stuff doesn't matter.

You want things to go well at a new club but life isn't that easy. So if you play badly you have to work more.

Whatever you want me to bake, I'll do it badly.

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

In 1986, we gave it our best shot but we didn't get the run of the ball.