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Quotes About Effort

My greatest high was to hit a ball well, to try to do it perfectly, to try different things, whether they came off or not.
~ Evonne Goolagong Cawley
I'm such a perfectionist and I want to do everything right, kick every goal, do everything perfectly, but that is not reality.
~ Beauden Barrett
I've always tried to live my life perfectly.
~ Kathy Hilton
At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform.
~ Kirby Smart
I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
~ Henry Rollins
You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
~ Harbhajan Singh
To do well at a new competition, you need a lot of good performances.
~ Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
I have always given 100 per cent, power and performance.
~ Franck Ribery
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.
~ Gwen Stefani
The fans can accept a poor performance, but they won't take it when you choose not to put in the effort.
~ Pep Guardiola
My performance at Rio gave me closure. I did my best and could not have done any more.
~ Abhinav Bindra
You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.
~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.
~ Eric Cantona
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
~ Marina Abramovic
I don't know why I performed well against Arsenal, but probably we prepared well, and it could be their football style as well.
~ Park Ji-sung
It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.
~ John Turturro
Costumes are great. That kind of effort tells the audience that the performer has taken the time to be the total package.
~ Martie Maguire
It's hard for performers to grow old gracefully, but I'm trying.
~ Anne Murray
Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.
~ Robert Smith
If you feel too comfortable while you're performing, you're probably not doing it right.
~ Cameron Britton
If a film does not do well, there is a certain period when you do feel low. It affects you because you put in a lot of effort.
~ Aditya Roy Kapur
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
~ Lytton Strachey
There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.
~ Art Bell