Quotes About Effort

We try 100% every single week to do the best job we can, but we always seem to find 10 more percent when we're faced with adversity.

Age doesn't mean anything. Age doesn't mean I can't work as hard. Age doesn't mean I can't do as well as everyone else. It's just a factor. It's just there.

I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.

To me, it's always bumpy, and to me, that's the joy of it. That's this game. That's how hard it is in the NFL. Really, what you did last year or 2010, as we know, doesn't factor.

If I watch 'The X Factor,' I know I'm never going to aspire to sing, so I don't mind if they're good or bad, but when I watch 'Bake Off,' because I aspire to be good at it, I find it easy to try and put myself in their position.

There's a reason why you attach the luck factor to your hard work. You work hard in every film, but there's always that one film that comes at the right time and does the best for you.

A lot of different factors go into making your performance a good one.

For me to able to deliver on a consistent basis abroad there are a lot of factors beyond just me that need to go into it.

It's all right to fail. You just have to get up again and try. That's the bottom line.

I fail all of the time. It means nothing.

I'd much rather try and fail than talk about trying.

It's quite hard when you do fail and you don't achieve what you want to achieve.

I don't love to fail.

Fail again, fail better.

I failed my HGV licence three times.

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I've failed a lot, you know, in football, and I've gone on a lot of auditions, been told no, been told I'm not right, so I know what failure feels like. It's about the work.

There's nothing to be scared of. We're playing basketball. The only thing that could happen is you failing. But as long as you're going hard, there's nothing to be scared of for me. I don't know what there is to be scared of.

I always say if you're not failing, you're not trying.

I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.

Because such a massive part of stand-up is trying and failing first, I'm not putting as much pressure on. Just going out and doing it is enough.

I used to think that my business mirrored my climbing - if I wasn't failing at something, I just wasn't trying anything hard enough.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.