Quotes About Effort

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I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

I'll work my butt off to do something well.

Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make it something that the audience liked and that I could be proud of.

A big burger is kind of a pain in the butt.

I didn't want to learn the butterfly because it's hard. I got it right away, but I didn't want to do it.

Having been around, I know how difficult it is to get results in this league. It doesn't just happen by buying players. It needs a lot of hard work.

I don't have anything to do but get in the cage and show my work and wait for my time.

In a game where it all lies on what you do in that cage, it's hard to walk out a loser.

Life ain't a piece of cake for me.

I wish I could calculate my way to a bigger audience, but I don't think I'm smart enough. Actually, I don't think anyone is smart enough. Most calculations along those lines fail.

Whatever the coach calls, I'm going to give 110 percent.

I am very calm, because I know how hard I am working and how much effort I am putting in.

I stay really calm and just try to do my best all the time.

If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

When training camp comes, all the guys in my running back room will see how hard I go every day.

Training camp gets long when you compete against your own guys.

The real football starts in training camp.

You go into training camp and you fight for jobs and often times things work themselves out. Like players just take the job, they play so well, they win it, and makes it easier on the coach to decide who is the guy that gets those minutes.

We practice, we work out, we go to camp, we go to OTAs to win games. So all that work goes in and you want to win games.

If we run the campaign that we plan on running, we think we're going to win.

I have had 20 months of campaigning.