Quotes About Effort

Obviously, we can hit home runs, but there's more to hitting and there's more to winning than that.

I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.

I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.

I don't care about the home runs as much as just being consistent and RBIs.

I may not hit 50, 40 or 30 home runs, but I can do the little things like moving runners over that don't show up in the box score.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

People watch 'The Social Network,' and what they hone in on is the wealth and the parties and the excitement, and they don't realize the grind and the 'gruelingness' and the disappointment.

Let's be honest - it's hard for me to get more sexy, but I'm giving it a go.

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.

While I do my work with a sense of honesty, I tell myself, 'What is the worst that can happen? I fail, right?' So, will I stop living after that? No. I will try again.

Every three months, I'll say, 'Honey, I think I should learn how to cook'.

Let's see... Rihanna! Work, work, work, work, work, work; OK, what? How much work does it take to move your behind, honey? I don't understand the job situation you're going through.

I was in honors classes in high school. I'd get an A on every test, but I had a 1.9 grade point average. The teacher would say, 'You didn't do your homework.' I'd say, 'But isn't the homework supposed to be the lead-up to the test?'

Everyone looks at our films and thinks that we are somehow able to make movie after movie that does well and is entertaining, but there's an enormous amount of work that goes on under the hood and an enormous number of mistakes that are made along the way.

If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.

I love to hoop and you can never get better just by sitting on the bench.

I'm just trying to look at different ways to see how the ball can go in the hoop.

All we can do is come in here and hoop, play hard, stay competitive and try to win.

You just control what you can control and just hopefully go win games and keep getting better.

I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

My constant advice to my family - 'hopes high, expectations low' - is based on the idea that we can try our best to be perfect, but sometimes good enough has to be good enough.