Quotes About Effort

I try to leave everything on the floor every single game.

Hey, people have their own opinions. But when I'm on the floor and I don't see somebody giving their all - I'm going to demand an effort. I'm out there to win games, and that's the bottom line.

I would just go out and play every game and leave it all out on the floor, and I guess I had the talent to get into a great college like UCLA.

At the end of the day, if I can keep playing defense, I'm going to be able to stay on the floor, and obviously that's what everyone wants to do.

I'm gonna run the floor. I'll do the best I can.

I never thought you could win when you've got five guys on the floor looking for the ball and no one out there doing the little things.

My rebounding on both ends of the floor is my best quality.

I love watching players who, you know when you go to see them, everything is going to be left out on the floor.

I can't really explain how some games I can get so many rebounds and some I can't. It just comes down to being aggressive and really going for it on both ends of the floor.

I was even treated as a 'flop,' a contract that doesn't pay. But I kept working my best.

Hard work makes us better people and helps our communities flourish.

I continue to wish that writing were easier, that it would flow out completely perfect with no need for revisions.

Marriage is hard work, and it's not all romance and flowers.

Nothing's by fluke and nothing's been given to me.

I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.

I'm focused on going out every day and doing my best.

I'm just focused playing 100% as best as I can at my club.

You change things by focusing your energy on doing your job well.

I don't really look at any other thing but focusing on how I perform, what I can do in the game.

That one thing that people say about me taking plays off, I feel like somebody said that when I was playing in college and it has followed me throughout my career. Because I feel like if we had the film and you wanted to pick one person who was taking a play off on a particular play, you could pick anybody.

It's hard to argue with a coach who says, 'I just want you to work.' What can you say to that without making a fool of yourself?

I think if you try a little bit too hard sometimes, you can kind of shoot yourself in the foot.

It's a game that I love and I want to continue to play. I know that I'll have a job somewhere. You've just got to go out there and put your best foot forward.

Everything I did on the left I had to learn in a 4-4-2 system, it wasn't natural. To collect the ball on my wrong foot.