Quotes About Effort

The one that works the hardest comes out on top.

Writing is like a sport. If you don't practice, you don't get any better.

The kind of player who has turned his game around, he used to be lousy and lazy and now he is lazy and lousy.

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing because it is one of the toughest things to do in sports.

Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.

Sport is my passion but I have a way to go.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

Be fair. Play hard.

Train hard while others don't, so you can win while your opponents wont.

Life is a sports make it count.

The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard.""Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"-Joe DiMaggio

There was no 'I' in team, but there was meat in team. And we were all dead meat.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.