Quotes About Effort

If I want any shot at getting on the floor, I gotta know what I'm doing defensively.

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

I've gotten out of bed a lot of days for a lot less than $10,000.

I do all the dirty work: play defense, grab rebounds, block shots and finish strong around the rim.

You work so hard to get to a level and you need to grab your chance with both hands.

Anyone can go all out when they can grab some glory, but the best give maximum effort at every opportunity in everything they do.

Once you kind of get into that rhythm where you grab a lot of rebounds every game, it kind of gets easier.

I made good grades in school.

I kind of always did get good grades.

When you relentlessly work, you gradually get accepted.

We want every guy to graduate, and we work very hard on that.

I prefer a good review. A bad review that dismisses us... I take it with a grain of salt. I go, 'Okay, they didn't even try.'

It's hard to win Grand Slams.

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

Hopefully I can win grand slams in the future but until then I have to work very, very hard.

When you win a Grand Prix, it's the culmination of everything coming together. Not just trackside, but behind the scenes.

Sometimes a 1-yard gain on third-and-1 is a big play. People take that for granted.

You can't take anything for granted so I have to keep working.

You've got to put the work in every week. You can't take anything for granted.

When you really struggle at one thing, you don't take it for granted.

I know that it's a fight at the end of the day; it's not a grappling match.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.