Quotes About Effort

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Since we are not robots, we can't always perform well.

For me, sometimes it's more important to perform well in training and know that I am improving rather than scoring in a game. It's doing the hard work, day in, day out.

I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

There is no formula for success. All you need to do is put in your best and be blessed with some good luck as well.

I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

Money is always an indicator of a job well done.

We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.

All I can say is I did the best I could, and I didn't do well enough on many occasions.

When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about.

I can't play piano well enough without making mistakes.

There's two sides to the game, and you have to do the ugly side as well. If you're getting beat, and you're conceding the goals that we're getting beaten by, then it's because you're not defending and shutting people down well enough.

I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is what I need for my metabolism and for a better sense of well-being.

I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

I've always worked hard at being a well-rounded player.

At the end of the day, nobody cares how much you tried, what the deal was, or if you were a good guy or a bad guy.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

Initially, I used to cart coke from the West Melbourne Gasworks -12 tonne a day, 150-pound sacks. I'd come home looking like Al Jolson at the end of the day - white teeth, black face... A good hard day's work.