Quotes About Effort

During the race there's only so much you can do. Whatever's going to happen is going to happen.

I am proud of what I was able to do, the races I was able to win and the championships, but that had as much to do with the teams and the people I worked with as well. Its not something you just do on your own; it's a whole army.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

Nobody loves finishing second, as we've seen in past races. It's a sport that you want to get everything you can out of it, but sometimes it just doesn't work out.

Competition works. Ask any parent if their child will run faster from the house to the mailbox if he runs by himself or if he races to the mailbox with his sister. It's a no brainer.

I go out there to do my best week in and week out to win races.

The goal is not to count medals, it's just racing the best I can.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

I want to thank everybody at Stewart-Haas Racing, everybody at Ford for just continuing to put the effort they put into these cars.

My goal has never been to see how many stats I can rack up.

I have always liked being under the radar. Work hard and do well. That is why people talk about you.

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.

It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.

I don't believe in rituals that produce luck. I believe that a good preparation can raise my chances for a callback. With that, I know what I need to do, so I go in there and do my best.

I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.

You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.

There's no one right way to be a person, we're all just doing our best. So the same thing should apply to parenting and raising your children and the things you go through.

I've never been good at raising money.

I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.

I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.

I run the most for every team that I play for. That's because I ran so much when I was younger.

I ran back punt returns and kickoff returns, and I played a pretty good game.

If I ran the show at Manchester United, I would be making a big effort to keep Paul Pogba.

Getting in field-goal range isn't that tough.