Quotes About Effort

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'

I think every day you wake up, and you do the best you can do that day.

It's always good to get a wake-up call and a reminder that you can't just go there and collect medals.

It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.

My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

Not everything is going to be handed to you just because you're talented with a big smile. Sometimes you just gotta get out and shoot jumpers for hours and hours and hours. That's something I didn't really get a grasp on until way later, waking up early and treating it like a job if you're serious about it. Get the freak up and, you know, work.

We're going to pick a team that will go out there and give absolutely everything for Wales.

There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the coaches, officials, governing bodies, and Sport Wales. It's a real team effort, and it's rightly called Team Wales.

I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.

Every time I pull on a Madrid or Wales top, I run myself into the ground.

My focus is solely on Wales. There's a lot of work to be done.

I would try to run when I was barely learning how to walk, so I would just fall.

It doesn't matter if we get a hit, a walk, hit by pitch; just trying to grind out at-bats.

I couldn't even chew bubble gum and walk at the same time. I wasn't very coordinated.

Soccer was probably the most fun game I've played because I never walked away feeling like I had a bad game. If you play a position in soccer where you can out-hustle or out-work or out-prepare somebody, it is a lot easier to walk away from the game and say, I gave it my all. I could always try. I could always hustle.

In Rio, we took the bronze, but I thought we gave everything we had, and that's what we walked away with.

If you're proud of something, and if you're proud of your work at the end of the day, the experience, walking away, you can feel good about it; that's what you have to focus on.

Nadal tries his best all the time, every point. But Kyrgios can spend 10 minutes looking like he would rather be walking down the King's Road.

Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

When people call something a 'fail,' it's because you tried to accomplish something but didn't make it. If you're just walking down the street and something bad just happens to you, that's not really a fail on your part. You might call that situation a fail.

Every one of us wakes up in the morning, walks out into the world, and does the best we can do based on what we know and the skills we have.

I know it looks like Burt walks through his movies, but he doesn't; he works hard to make it look that way, and the work is tough.