Quotes About Effort

People think that jumping or do trick shot is gifted. Yes, it's gifted but is a lot of work. I won't say I work on the trick shot, but it's like I think physically I'm one of the best.

There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

I can't remember ever cooking food to impress a woman. The idea's quite cheesy and sort of makes my skin crawl. But I sometimes make a special effort to impress my cats, with chicken liver or something. It's tricky to know if a cat's impressed. They might give me a little look, a glimpse at least. That's cat ownership for you.

The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.

Pilots are tricky because there are so many things you have to accomplish.

I have tried so hard to do right.

It's better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

I took the California Highway Patrol exam and didn't pass, so I tried to be a cop and failed.

All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this man has tried, and his family tried. This is all there is to seek in this world.

I don't know if you saw, in the first 'Celebrity Big Brother,' Jack Dee was in it, and tried to escape by digging a hole with a spoon. That just made me think: that approach would be perfect on 'Taskmaster' - trying to achieve something impossible with something mundane.

If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.

I have tried to convince the players that if we work on certain things in training, they will happen in games and we will score goals from them.

Maybe now, instead of being afraid and saying, 'Look how hard Terry tried, and he still got cancer,' instead people will say, 'Look at the effort he put in, and he died of cancer. We're really going to have to try hard in order to beat it - harder than we ever have before.'

I always tried to be a guy that plays hard and was committed to giving his all, on and off the court. So that's something I'm really proud of.

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.

I really tried to put my best foot forward all these years.

My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What did I do today?' It doesn't have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

I tried to make the Olympics team in 1956.

Being a dad, and being in a rock band, it's harder than it looks. But we tried. And we try.

I just tried to find a fine line between muscling in and staying relaxed.