Quotes About Effort

In 2014, we won the World Cup without a big superstar. We won with a team performance where everyone brought something to the team and gave everything for the team.

Many substitutes have won the Euros, World Cup or Champions League without contributing anything.

If anybody wants to beat me, let them run a world record.

I am just going to try to run my personal best. If it comes as a world record, I would appreciate it. But I would treat it as a personal best.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I'm never going to break the world record for the five miles. It's partly genetics; I'm just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?

For me, I've not really focused on a world record. I'm just trying to put a complete race together, and when I do that, then fast times will come.

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

I started with the job of sending migrants back home the day lockdown started, and I will not end this task till the last migrant reaches home. We are working day and night to reach out to everyone so that all of them can reunite with their families.

I used to work from 7 A.M. till 3 A.M.

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

I sometimes train extra till four or five o'clock at the gym if I feel that I have to do something extra.

I was barely 16 when I started working. And I worked extensively. But you can work extensively till a point.

If you have talent and you work really hard, it increases your odds but it doesn't ensure anything. But every now and then, the universe must tilt in your direction.

Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.

Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

In the end, not only the team, but the players themselves benefit from having to prove their worth time and time again, too.

Seriously, you tell me, if you aim at something, and then hit it time and time again, was it luck or did you just do what you were trying to do?

It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.

When you spend time working on something for a time period, and then it doesn't correlate, it decreases in your motivation.

It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.

Fundraising is very, very time-consuming.