Quotes About Effort

Yesterday doesn't count. It is what you do today that counts. No amount of talking about yesterday is going to change it.

I had a horrendous photo for my hundred yesterday, so I needed to make sure I wasn't going too nuts to make sure the 200 photo was better.

I'm working as hard as I can. Yesterday, I had five different debates. I don't get a half an hour a day to talk to my wife. I don't know how much harder I can work.

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

You can do yoga all day, you can run or bike or swim, but a pull-up will still be hard. It's not that you have to be a juiced-up 'lunk' to do one; it's a matter of physics.

I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.

In practice, I don't only bowl yorker.

Even with Yorkshire I had 19 fifties before I got my first hundred.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

If you're not cheating, you're not trying.

We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don't get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.

If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.

You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you're a pretty decent person you'll get back what you put in.

You can't cheat the game. You can't cheat the grind. You get out what you put in at the end of the day.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

If you can do it then why do it?

Pre-season is warm-up for the season so if you can do it in pre-season then you can do it in the season. So it's always better to go out there and give it your all, get your fitness and make sure you perform, because obviously sometimes managers take performances in pre-season to decide if you're going to start the first game of the season.

Even though it's hard to learn how to back your car out the driveway at first, once it becomes a habit, you can do it almost automatically and think about something else, like the meeting that you need to go to today or what's on the radio.

I enjoy roles that involve a task outside of my natural capabilities - for example, playing a number of musical instruments or sword fighting or cutting a suit. You have to look as though you can do it, without too much editing.

You have to have some form of talent. Getting to a skill-set when you can do something is achievable. Getting to a skill-set when you can do it an elite level is a different thing.

Shane McMahon did his own mo-cap. Did you guys know that? He went and did his own mo-cap. He didn't want somebody doing his moves. Shane did his own mo-cap.