Quotes About Effort

Did you ever run behind a slow pack? You get a trailing wind and a lot of body odor.

Thus far we run before the wind.

Whatever you wind up doing in life, things aren't handed to you.

I leave everything on the floor so when I step off the floor I am already wind down. I don't hold anything back.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

I think hard work is definitely a huge thing, but there is something, if you want to call it luck or whatever - a window of opportunity - that is totally outside of your control, and it's that thing that will sometimes separate a good career from a great career.

In every sector of business, it's really hard to build something where you can get on a good run. In sports, it's even harder because you only have a small window for an athletic career.

Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.

We know the window of boxing don't last long. We want to try to get everything we can in this window and beat everyone we can.

I shined shoes; I did windows.

For both the wine business and in football, if you want longevity, you must work hard.

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

I like my glass of wine, but I work for it. You can't expect to maintain that sort of level of physique if you don't do something.

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

There are no shortcuts, and you can't wing your way through real hard work. I learned the hard way by not taking auditions seriously when I first came out to L.A. and probably wasted a good seven years.

I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock.

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.

Paul forced the Beatles to work a lot harder than they would have otherwise, and he did the same thing with Wings.

You've got to know your role. I was never built like someone who was 6-9 or 6-10, didn't have athleticism and became a good shooter. Wasn't a natural shooter. So for me, it's being smart. It's a guy, I used to look at Shane Battier; take angles, play the right way, a winner. Do all the little things.

Nothing creates a winner quite like earning it, not just inheriting it.

I am a winner - and I like to win - but I cannot think that, if I lose, I did not do a good job, because there are other external factors involved.

If everybody's a winner, nobody has to try very hard.

Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

In a competition, there's always winners and losers. And I think everyone is here to win, which makes it fun for us all.