Quotes About Effort

My tennis skills are okay.

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way.

I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

I just go out and play my best tennis.

I wasn't any good at playing tennis.

Tennis is very tough.

Tennis is one of those sports: whatever you put in, you get out.

Tennis court, the results, yes, it gives me a feeling of accomplishment and knowing that all the work I put in is working. It's a great feeling. But happiness is something way bigger than tennis.

As a tennis player, you have a record, and that is what counts. I feel like I enjoyed myself, and I'm proud of what I accomplished.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

Some days, you will sit down, and you write tens of thousands of words. Others, you have to force yourself to write a single sentence.

I have no tension. I only play to give my best.

There is great effort to balance the short term with the long term. How are we trying to achieve sustained success? That includes success now.

I think the Obama administration, whether it's in his first term or second term, is totally committed to the search for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and we greatly appreciate the president's effort, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the first administration, now Secretary of State John Kerry.

The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny Cash thing that trying to live a good life and be a good person are not necessarily the same thing!

It's strange: I always try to do the best acting job I can do under the imaginary circumstances of my working position at any given time. But it's terrible when you know it's going bad, and you know it immediately. But you just have to still try to do the best job you can.

I just grow a terrible mustache, so I try to use my neckbeard as a substitute. And when I get lazy, I don't shave that often.

I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

I'm a terrible golfer.