Quotes About Effort

There have been so many stories out there about me, so many untruths. I've always believed you can only control what you can control. I can control my attitude, my effort, my commitment to West Virginia. I can't control lies.

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

One of our secret-sauce powers is that our people don't just write checks and place the ads, but our employees go the extra mile to get things done.

Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

The fact is all of the most highly successful scientists I know work practically all the time.

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

That's why we have practice rounds. We make the adjustments as we go around, try and find out how to play the golf course the best we can. No big deal, it's nothing to me, it's the same for me as it is to everybody and we're all trying to understand it.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

There is nothing like practice.

We like to think that we practice so hard that the games are easy.

I give 110 percent, and that's in practice and every game and everything.

You've got to put in a lot of practice if you want to be good in something. You've got to do it the right way.

How you practice in nets matters a lot.

One of the things Mother said to me, 'You want this, you're going to practice.' And I know how to practice.

Just have fun, and just play hard, and just practice a lot.

When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.