Quotes About Effort

Channel your energy. Focus.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

It's not where you start but where you finish.

The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

You might not be able to outthink, outmarket or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.

You can do more, you can always do more.

What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best - all I could do.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.