Quotes About Effort

It's disappointing when you put in a lot of hard work and it doesn't really pay off the way that you want it to.

I have been working on my backhand since I was the age of five. And it's a disaster, my backhand, so I'm working on it.

It is in my nature to give the work I have all the discipline and due diligence that I am capable of.

I had discipline in other areas but certainly not in athletics.

You've got to make sure that every body's putting in the work and you've got to have the discipline to go out there and get the job done.

English football is very, very difficult. It is very disciplined.

It's funny that I love golf so much because I'm not usually drawn to things I'm not so good at. It's all about practice and working and not getting discouraged.

It is discouraging a little bit to look up at the board and see that we're about 30 points behind our points goal for a competition.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

When I was at the Cordon Bleu things took hours and hours and hours to make. And they were beautiful dishes - and I know how to cook that way - but I was like, 'no one is cooking like this.'

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

There is no perfect relationship. You have to work around the dissatisfaction.

As an adult, I had to accept that I was not a natural distance runner. Anything more than about 400 metres had me gasping and wheezing like a broken accordion.

That's one reason I think the 1,500 is so exciting. You have to be strong, have to be a distance runner. But in that last hundred you are going all out.

You go the whole distance as a player, the last thing you probably want is the coach to say, 'Okay, you've gone this far, I'm going to take you out.'

I have to do so much to distinguish myself.

I worked very hard to be a diva. But it never worked.

If there's a loose ball, I'm going to dive and see if I can get it. That's just the way you play.

When you've got so many guys that can score the ball, you really don't want to get down and defend. You really don't want to get down and dive for balls. You really don't want to fight through screens every play.

I'm in a Catch-22. If I don't go after a ball, I'm lazy, I'm not giving it 100 percent. If I do dive for the ball - which I did, and blew out my shoulder - it's, Why did I play it so hard?

We gotta play hard and leave it all out there. Dive for lose balls, take charges, just do whatever it takes to win the game.

I think when I dive on the court, I dive not for people. To be honest, I gonna hurt myself for people?... I dive because I want to win the point.

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

I feel like sometimes people see us as like robots and out there expecting to win every time. But, in reality, that's not how it is, and it's not that easy.