Quotes About Effort

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.

I don't want to leave the sport saying I could have run faster. I just want to be tapped out, like I gave it my all.

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

No one has as much luck around the greens as one who practices a lot.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

The score never interested me, only the game.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty