Quotes About Effort

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

'There are no easy pickings.' That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than 'There's no such thing as a free lunch.'

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.

The most interesting statistic, stunning statistic that came out of my research was that in 1942, as this war production effort is going on, the number of Americans killed or injured in war-related industries surpassed the number of Americans in uniform killed and wounded in action in the war by a factor of 20 to 1.

What I have appreciated about the 'Call of Duty' games is the scale of production. It's not an indie game. It's not trying to be an indie game. But I've genuinely been pretty consistently blown away by, wow, what an effort has gone into this.

When I'm shooting, it averages out at a 16-hour day. You have two deadlines everyday - lunch and wrap.

I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.

The thought of buying a gift and wrapping is too much of an effort for me.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

Every time you wanted to do something, you'd hope it would score. You'd keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden, something would come right out of left field, like 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' No one had any idea about that one.

I wrestle every opportunity with gusto.

I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue - but so happy.

The people that have made a name for themselves and really just can wrestle have worked their butts off to get to that place. They definitely deserve a lot of respect.

It was great to get rid of the long hair. It's such a pain that, if you look at it, it's always wet when guys wrestle: you dump gallons of conditioner in it to keep it wet so you're not choking on it. You have all kinds of stuff in it, and just maintaining it is a lot of work.

I need to wrestle, I need to compete.

There are times when you got to put a little 'extra' in, especially on a card at WrestleMania or SummerSlam because it's no time to hold anything back. You have to pull out all of the stops.

On the road to WrestleMania, this is where everyone's giving 110 percent.

At 'WrestleMania,' I can show my 100 percent or more.

I was never the most technical wrestler. But my coaches definitely instilled in me the belief that if you can push yourself and practice smarter than the other guy, you can beat him.

You don't become a wrestler overnight. Like everything, it takes time and I wasn't born in this business.

I worked hard, and I was always frustrated when wrestlers didn't want to work as hard.

I was in the top 1 percent of football players. Indie guys are in the bottom 95 percent of wrestlers.