Quotes About Effort

It's not fun when you're losing, but it's fun when your teammates are diving for loose balls and you're helping them up and clapping for each other.

I just want to try to find my way to help teammates, and I am struggling from long range.

Sometimes, I might not be able to show all of the work that I've put in because I've got a certain role. I've had openings and my teammates have done a great job of finding me and it's on me to convert them.

You need to press high, help your teammates by getting back - and, of course, score goals.

I don't know if I ever said I'm going to get a lot of offensive rebounds. As far as I can remember that's been something I've done. I'm not sure how that happened. That's a way to help my teammates, so I'm happy doing it.

Wherever I am I just try to be there for my teammates on the floor and put forth effort and help our team win.

The best thing I can say is that I put it all on the line for my teammates, my family, and my coaches.

I could score some points, but I take more satisfaction in blocking shots, rebounding and getting my teammates open shots.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

Tough teams win when the shots are not going.

Tempers flare at times. That's what good teams do: they react to things and go out there and leave it all on the field.

There is hard work involved, and maybe many people wouldn't like that. But for the best teams in the world who can do that without losing too many points, then it's just great.

I thought the car was amazing, but it still astonished me that he would have gone to that much trouble for us to be together.

Once I was satisfied I knew it, I handed it to Adrian and shot him a hopeful look. "Wish me luck," I said. "You make your own luck," he replied.

In fact, he'd bought it to impress me, pretending he couldn't drive manual transmission in order to spend more time with me while I taught him.

A single Sherman tank took three hundred man-hours to waterproof, occupying the five-man crew for a week.

Gunners sloshed cans of water to cool their glowing barrels while others struggled from the rear with ninety-six-pound rounds on their shoulders.

Lincoln had inelegantly called "the tired spot that can't be got at.

One halfhearted effort had already been made in late March to force Fondouk Pass.

If you can't strive for perfection...just strive.

and tried to learn to surf, which was really just buying a really small boat and practicing to drown.

The scale spun to the truth of it. The two women, together, had picked more than six hundred pounds of cotton--at two dollars per one hundred pounds, they made six dollars each, and a little change. They had picked three times their weight.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

It's easy to focus on self. That is the natural inclination of people. But it is more productive to focus on the team. And it is even more important to focus on the work you must do to help the team.