Quotes About Effort

In the one-dayers, it boils down to who performs better on the day of the match.

That's my goal, to feel like I've done the best I could. When I've done that, anything else that happens is a bonus.

I think any way you can help offensively or defensively, and if you can get both in one day, that's a huge confidence booster and everyone wants to do that.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.

I don't want easy success. It's boring.

I think I had a lot to do with why there's even a thing such as 205 Live. In the past, when they started that, they didn't even acknowledge me. I've gotta lie to tell you that that didn't bother me.

If I go 1-for-9 in a game and we win, it doesn't bother me.

Some years you have more work and some years less. That does not bother me. What matters is the end product.

I've played piano since I was probably six or seven, but I stopped when I was about 13, and I couldn't be bothered to do the exams or learn my scales.

I couldn't be bothered with the whole shaving-every-couple-of-days routine.

What bothers me is when my players don't train well.

It's hard to start from the bottom.

The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.

The only thing that matters is performance. That's the bottom line. You're part of the team. It doesn't matter if you're in your first year or your 41st.

I just go out there and 'D' up. Everybody can make a layup, but everybody can't play 'D.' Just winning, that's all that matters, that's the bottom line. Get a win.

Sometimes the ball isn't always going to bounce your way. But you've got to find a way to affect the game.

You can sometimes bowl extremely well and get no reward.

It's difficult to bowl a good ball but to take a wicket off it, that's even more difficult.

On a normal wicket, the ball goes through quickly after bouncing so it doesn't give the batsman as much time. But on a slow wicket you have to bowl with more effort.

You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day.

You cannot be successful by just bowling yorkers.

I have put in a lot of work on my bowling.

As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.