Quotes About Effort

You work really hard on something, and you know you can't always make great work. It just doesn't happen like that, I don't think, at least not for most people, anyways.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?

There are no grey areas with commitment, you're either in or you are out; 95 per cent doesn't work. I didn't have that much talent as a kid, but I worked at it, all hours known to man.

I love the grind. I think it makes you better in all facets of life.

I like to grind and not think too much about the good stuff. I like to focus on the stuff I need to get better at.

Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.

I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country where I had no ax to grind, no advocacy issues that I was carrying with me.

You're going to have to grind it out on some drives.

That's what the grind is, doing all the little things knowing that something may not come out of it. It probably won't. But the goal is to get a shot at it.

If you take guys that love the grind of football and who are passionate about football, it should click regardless if they have the proper talent.

We don't play to grind out goalless draws.

It's definitely a grind. Come to the gym early, leave late.

During the season, you just grind, it's a cat-and-mouse game.

I wasn't as good as some of these guys coming into high school, going into college. I really had to grind to get my position, even still now. I'm still doing the same thing.

Yeah, I blew up. But people don't see the other side of it. They don't talk about how I played on a broken foot. They don't know about the everyday grind.

If you're not going to put in the effort, your size is not going to take you so far. As long as you go out there and grind and go hard, good things will continue to happen to you.

I'm more of a grinder, just get out there and get the job done.

I'm kind of a grinder.

I can't take anything back. I've just kept grinding and kept working.

My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.

We really be grinding and training every day.

Goal line is goal line. You go down there and it's the grit and grind of the game.