Quotes About Effort

I became one of the top wrestlers outside of WWE in the world, and it all happened because I started giving it my everything.

Love me or hate me, I hope the WWE Universe can respect that night in and night out, I've given it my all.

Yale students want to impress you with what they're doing. Harvard students want to impress you with how cool they look while doing it.

It was a given at UCSB that if there was a role that called for a person of color, it was going to be handed to me. There were certain times when maybe I didn't try as hard. Going to Yale was a way more diverse experience.

When I got into Yale College, got into Yale Law School. I've worked my tail off.

Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank Baker; we paid $25,000 for Lee Magee, and we have got rid of a young fortune on other players who couldn't deliver the goods. And we have had some of the most frightful luck I ever heard of.

The Yankees can buy all the stars they want, but that doesn't guarantee they are going to win.

It was a crazy series, 1960. The Yankees were predicted to beat us four straight. And on paper, we couldn't match them because they had better players. But we also had twenty-five guys that wanted to win, and we did everything we could to win.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good.

There will be plays where you've got to just lower your shoulder and get 1 yard.

You want to fight for everything you can get, every yard, every drive, every opportunity that you have.

We'd get $3.50 a bushel. A bushel is a lot of peas. You know how many peas you have to pick to fill a bushel? We would work from 6 to 2, then I'd have to go home and cut the yard.

The tag that I was too small and too slow just made me work that much harder. Besides, quickness is more important than flat-out speed. How often does a receiver run 40 yards straight down the field? Not very often. Lateral speed is what counts. How quickly can you get in and out of a cut? I can do that as well as anyone.

I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn't have a flip turn.

There's always areas of the game you want to improve. For me, specifically, yards after the catch, making those tough, contested catches.

I'm just trying to set my game up to that level of anytime the ball comes my way, I make a play, making people miss and getting the yards after the catch.

Guys who aren't going to be brought down on first contact, they'll get you fired up. When you see guys spinning away and getting extra yards, it fires you up.

Football is still fun, but it's not so much fun when you're losing, especially when you prepare as hard as you can, you go out and have four targets, two catches and 10 yards.

Whether it's yards, touchdowns, catches, if you just do what you're supposed to do, you're eventually going to get the ball.

Pooper scooper? Yeah, I've done it a few times. Every once in a while, you have to.

No one who has gotten second place at a Grand Slam is ever like, 'Yeah, now I feel fine about it.' Everyone wants the other trophy. But it inspires you to work harder and get yourself in that position again so that you can use what you've learned.

When you record an album and it goes platinum... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts.