Quotes About Effort

You have to have that willingness and that fight to get back in the game and get a point or a win. I don't think you can teach or learn that kind of thing.

Whether you're talking about the 70s Knicks or the 90s Knicks, the championship-caliber teams, it all starts with your defense, your rebounding, your willingness to play for each other.

Whether you're in year one or you're in year 12, every day you've got to show up with a willingness to compete and to prove that you belong there and a willingness to get better and listen to coaching.

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.

I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.

There are too many British players who just aren't good enough. And that's not through lack of effort. But in terms of getting to the top 100, and getting into Wimbledon on their ranking, I feel as though there are too many players who just aren't good enough.

Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes.

The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.

In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.

If you're not in it you can't win it.

It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.

If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.

You can't always win - although we always try!

God creates us to compete. He creates us to win. It matters. But you've got no chance if you don't do your best.

There's no medals for trying. This isn't like eighth grade where everybody gets a trophy. We are in a professional sport, and it is competitive to win. That's what we do.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some, sometimes you can't be at 100 percent.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

You can't ever make the perfect run, but you can make the best run, and then you clock the fastest time, and that's a win.

We never give up until the ref's final whistle, we never give up we try to score one more to win the game - that's what we do.