Quotes About Effort

Hard work is just something that my parents, when I was young, they made sure that we knew what hard work was and that it was okay to work hard and okay to sweat.

Sweat doesn't fall off you. The water just accumulates until it gets too big and agitated and falls off like a sphere of water. It then floats around until it hits something. It takes a lot of water to fall off. Usually it just hangs on, so you get a quick build-up of sweat when working out.

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

I am a sweater. I sweat making dinner and going to the bathroom and everything.

I love hard work. If I'm not sweating, then I'm not working.

I hate sweating, running and getting that red-faced look.

When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.

I can't learn Swedish to save my life. I tried, but I'm not very good at it.

I don't want to be on such a strict diet that I don't have fun. So if I eat sweets, I'll just put in more of an effort when I go to the gym.

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

I can be proud of every swim, every effort I put in the water, every mental approach to every single race.

In one session, I saw a lady and a man learn to swim for the first time. Within an hour, the man swam front crawl for half a length, and the lady finished a full length with her head under water.

Being on the podium, of course, is enjoyable, but the majority of what - not just myself, not just swimmers, I think the majority of all athletes - it's not necessarily fun, the core of the whole process.

I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

The only way you can get a hit is if you take a swing.

My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

If you hit a routine fly ball in the big leagues, you're out every time. If you hit a ground ball, you're probably out a lot of the time as well. But there's a happy medium in there, a way to swing where your misses can still lead to successes.

I've got a high-school swing. I know that. But you know what? It's good enough to get a ball in play.

I wasn't the most talented player as a kid. Whenever I look back at the old footage, I didn't swing it very well and I didn't strike it pretty well, but I managed to score pretty well.