Quotes About Effort

As we say from time to time, it's hard to win in the National Football League.

Everybody gets frustrated when they lose. But at the end of the day I can control what I do. Whatever team I'm on, let's roll.

I think I'm just competitive and I demand a lot from myself. So I get frustrated if something hasn't come off for me or if a game is going against it. I like to think I channel it in the right way and do my best for the team.

In my career, I finished in second place six times. I played on teams that were in it to the very end. It's frustrating.

At the end of the day, nobody drops a catch on purpose, and even the fielder gets frustrated. As a bowler, when a few catches are dropped, yeah, that is frustrating. But I think, ultimately, it's part of the game.

Not to play is frustrating, and I don't accept it, but I do the best I can to try to play.

It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.

It's frustrating when you're not getting the job done.

I've been a good 3-point shooter, but I've been a better midrange shooter my whole career, so it was definitely frustrating to try to figure out that balance.

It's very frustrating when you don't always get the right kind of rub - you watch tennis and know if you play better than the other guy, you win. But that's the game we play. It can create mini-upsets.

It's frustrating not to play well.

It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.

Punting the ball is really frustrating to me.

There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.

Sometimes in cricket nothing is automatic; when automatic fails you need some fuel.

I don't get the credit I deserve but I continue to work hard and it fuels me.

I do think I have a thing or two to improve myself although it is difficult to reach your full potential at an average team.

Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.

Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.

I'm grateful for the time, energy, creativity and effort each artist has brought to the project to further the mission of The Lunchbox Fund.

I would find it difficult to be involved in an effort that I think disenfranchises people from a fundamental right. How do you work with people who are opposed to marriage equality? I don't want to do it.

Well she was bright; and she danced...And my function in life was to keep that bright thing in existence. And it was almost as difficult as trying to catch with your hand that dancing reflection. And the task lasted for years.

The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from inability to find the right words, he had developed almost a passion for silence.

It won't be enough for either of us. But it will be better than nothing.