Quotes About Effort

I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

I was a horrible athlete.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

I'm a work horse.

The best riders in the world with the best horses make it look so elegant and graceful. When you watch it done well, it looks so easy that it's difficult for the public to understand how hard this really is.

I find a lot of really hot people to be extremely boring because they haven't had to work at it.

I never wanted to get paid by the hour. If I was going to do more work than another guy, I wanted to get paid more.

I used to work, like, for 16 hours a day, or sometimes 24 hours.

Many people do not know how hard I work. There are many days I work more than 18 hours.

I just go out there and fight for every point, and then we see how far I can go.

I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They're fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.

The love of basketball, the time and effort I've put into it - I'd be doing a disservice to myself if I didn't see how far I could go in basketball before I tried to do anything in baseball.

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

I just love how fluid football has to be, how much time and energy it takes to practice and then taking it to the field and executing in a game situation.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.

If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.

To play in a Super Over at the end of a draining day takes a huge amount of effort.

It's such a competitive industry. Your film and work make a huge difference, but the secondary thing... your appearance... what you wear and how you are looking are also important.

When entrepreneurs talk about their success, they rarely talk about luck. I think that's because most of them think the concept denigrates the hard work and smart thinking they put into their projects. But luck is a huge part of any successful business.

Mark Hughes really liked me, because he played me in a lot of games, but for some reason I just couldn't hit the form I wanted. It was nothing personal against him or the way he did things.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.