Quotes About Effort

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.

You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'

There are 168 hours in a week, and even if you're working out two, three, four, or five times a week for an hour, you're still not working out at least 95 to 98 percent of the week. So it's what you do during that time that's far more impactful than what you do in the gym.

I get in the gym and put the work in with the fitness coaches so I can be the best shape I can be in.

I was exposed to the gym at about 28. I never had a huge love or appetite for it - it was just a means to an end.

Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

When you want to be a fighter, you have to give it everything you got. MMA just became who I am because of the amount of work I was putting into my training. It all starts in the gym. The hours turn into days, days into weeks, and weeks into months; it's like school - the more time you spend learning, the better you'll be prepared for a test.

All the hard work starts in the gym.

Maybe that's why I like gymnastics - because I like to fly.

I've never been a hero at gymnastics.

I don't know how I have got this habit, but I try to play one match and give it my best - it doesn't matter which level of cricket I am playing in. It gives me satisfaction that I am not thinking about others, not competing with others.

There's no magic formula where you're going to get everything done in one day. I think it's about establishing and building the right habits to be successful.

I think that if Haiti is not self-sufficient in food, it is because we have stopped working.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

In the gym, you get out what you put in. There's no room for excuses, for taking shortcuts or giving half effort.

I do what work I get. I'm disappointed half the time.

It all goes back to the players putting everything out on the pitch. They commit to the game, so the support gets behind them straight away. They don't see half-hearted performances, they don't see people that are not running around. They see players competing, putting in the effort and enthusiasm.

If you don't meet luck halfway with really hard work, luck won't get you all the way there.

I thought that you had to work, work, work and try to be the best musician you could, and that's the only way you could make it. Then it turns out, halfway through the scene, they change the rules on you!

For me, hard work and determination got me in the Hall of Fame.

I can't practice every practice or play every play like, 'Oh, I'm trying to get in the Hall of Fame.'

It is no good being good in halves of games or in one game and not in the next one.

I'll do everything I can to get West Ham as far up the table as I can.