Quotes About Effort

If I spend a couple of hours practising on the driving range, my 10 handicap becomes a 12 by the time I get on the course.

Fake buckteeth make a joke that you don't have to make any effort on, even if you're not a funny person.

I went to go see 'Final Destination' which you have to be 17 and over to see and they're like 'Uh, we need to see your I.D.' Here's the really funny thing is that I actually had done my hair and makeup that day. If I don't do my hair and makeup I can understand it but I had actually made an effort to look older.

Not to say that he put me through anything traumatizing, but I think just my dad has always had a short fuse. I always wanted to do my best just so I wouldn't have to deal with that.

It is rare for a joke to emerge fully formed and it is worth grafting away until it is absolutely right. Though perversely too much work, too much thought, can destroy a gag completely.

It's so easy to lose your fitness and so hard to gain it back.

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

If you train hard and work hard eventually you will gain results, and that is the real spirit of life.

You want to make as many plays as you can just to help your team to get points on the board. If that happens you're going to naturally gain confidence.

I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.

I always thought, 'That's just the way you do it.' You work as hard as you can for as long as you can, and the small gains you make will eventually pay off.

I've got so many big gains to make in the javelin and the shot put. I know I'm not going to be winning the field in those events, but I need to do myself justice.

Athletics is athletics. When you do sport, you are gambling. You run, you win, you lose. It doesn't matter if you are competing or you are not competing.

But I'm the worst sort of gamer because I don't stick to things and I don't really care about winning. It's the same with sports and stuff like that. If it's too difficult I'll stop.

Being able to compete and try and win games is the coolest feeling.

You have so many games to play, and you can do well in one game but bad in the other ones. The thing you've got to be is consistent.

That's all I'm really concerned about - contribute and try to win games.

I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.

I have to do what I have to do so that we can win games.

I'm just trying to win the games.

Gaming is something you have to force actively against and I will do this.

I have had so many gaps that I have not been consistently working, and the thing is that you get better with more work.

The way I see it is, the better you play, the more money you're going to earn. It's like working in a car garage, the more cars you sell, the more money you're going to earn at the end of the day. It's how life works.

I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.