Quotes About Effort

I've always prided myself on working so hard and then achieving goals without realizing the pleasure is often in the journey. And actually, the journey can be just as fun, if not more so, than the outcome.

I stopped playing online poker due to a combination of the UIGEA legislation and realizing that I could make more money with less effort by betting sports.

That's what people don't understand: whatever you do in life, you have to be consistent at it because that's when you'll reap the rewards from it.

Mum and dad have worked so hard and shown me that if you work hard you will reap the benefits.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

There's a God of football, who makes you reap all that you've sown.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.

The more times you go after it the more times you'll get the ball. So every chance I get I try to chase down the rebound.

You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.

It's not just passing, I gotta play defense, I gotta rebound, I gotta talk, I could have 40 and not talk and not bring energy. But it's just trying to have an all-around game, just trying to be the leader I can be, get the pace up.

Sometimes, it's the little plays that I make that can change the outcome of the game - whether it's blocking a shot or blitzing a guard or getting an offensive rebound.

I just see the ball and I go for it. It's wanting to make a winning play for the team and get a rebound.

I'll dive on loose balls. I'll get the winning rebound, hit the winning shot. I'll do whatever it takes to win a game.

When you go up for the rebound, you can't wait for the ball to come down. You have to go get the ball at the highest point. That's how it is in football. If you want to win those jump balls and those 50-50 balls, you've got to go up and get it.

I don't really pay attention to the guy I outwork for the rebound, it's really just hearing the crowd just be like, 'Ohhhhh.' They just get frustrated. That's a good feeling.

Money comes, and money goes. I just want to win games. I could care less how much money is riding on a rebound.

I'm pretty sure I'm not looked at to score 20 a game. I can just do all the other stuff - rebound, defend, make plays.

I'm a willing passer. And I rebound.

Everybody knows I'm not on the floor because I'm great scorer or free throw shooter. It's because I'm out there to defend and rebound.

To give your best is to receive the best.

My dad taught me to be professional, to treat others the way you want to be treated, to be selfless, to give more than you receive and to always give your best effort.