Quotes About Effort

I always preach this to people, even my teammates and family: 'Always know someone's working harder than you, trying to get that spot you have.' That's what drives me.

I just want to go out there and try to get my respect from my teammates and my coaches.

I want to be successful in playing the game. I'm going to do my best to help myself and my teammates play in the best possible way and reach successful results.

Just care about your teammates, care about the game, try to be good each day. That's the way I do my part.

I'm focusing on being the best I can for my teammates - catching as many balls and putting in as many good blocks as I possibly can.

I just want to go out and play the right way, make sure I get my teammates the ball and then also bring the energy on defense. That's something that I know I can do each and every game, whether my shot's falling or not.

Every Hispanic player goes through that. It's a lot of hard work, to be able to communicate with your teammates. English is fundamental to be able to express yourself fully in a game.

I just want to do my job and have fun and enjoy my teammates, and I don't need to tell everybody that, oh, this is what I'm doing or this is how good I am.

Look, the only way for me to enjoy the game is to be consumed by it, to compete at a level where I know, at the end of that game, that my teammates and I did our absolute best.

Any one of my shoes that I had, you knew that, night in, night out, I gave my teammates and my fans everything that I had.

I can control how hard I play. This is how I respond to coaching. This is how I respond to my teammates. If I focus on that, the other things that come with that are going to come.

I try to come in, try to defend, help on defense, play as hard as possible and do whatever my coach and my teammates tell me and try to listen and get better.

I'm just out there supporting my teammates, but when I'm out there, I'm going to lay it out on the line.

I work hard each and every summer, each and every day on my game to become a better player for my teammates, for the organization. Hard work always pays off.

I'm just trying to live in the moment and do the best I can for myself and for my teammates, and that's all I can really focus on.

I love making the big play. I love being out there with my teammates. I love the camaraderie. I can't say I always love practice. But it's a means to an end.

I want to see given extra effort, pulling for your teammates: those are the kinds of things we're shooting for and we're going for because that's what we need.

I try to attack the glass, get rebounds and create possessions for my teammates because that's what I'm here to do. But if they face guard or put two or three guys on me I'm going to keep going to the glass and keep being relentless.

I just wanted to play hard - just to give my 100 percent to help my teammates, to help my team to win the game. That's my only goal going on the court.

Go out there and play hard, understand your teammates, understand the other team's gameplan, understand your coaches' philosophies and what they want you to do. There's nothing better than showing, though; more than talking, you have to make your actions speak louder than words.

That's all I seek every practice and every game, to progress in some way, be coachable and try to be the best I can be for my teammates.

I go out to every match to do my job and my teammates help me score and to be honest I score so much because they make it so easy for me.

I just focus on what I can do myself, which is work hard and try to compete with the teammates I have.

I try to do my best to trust my teammates and make plays at the same time. I'm not the greatest at it. But I'm learning.