Quotes About Effort

When a filmmaker tries to make a good film and if he gets success in that then definitely it's a nice feeling.

I just play hard on the defensive end. For me, being a good defender is someone who plays very hard on defense and just tries hard.

If you give me six tries, I can probably land a kick flip.

I'm a type of player that tries to do everything a lot to help our team. Setting screens to get guys open, trying to block shots.

No one wants to work for what they have, to achieve a goal. No one wants to step outside of the house and go for a long run and sweat. Everybody wants to run inside the house, the treadmill. They want to trim up a little excess body fat, but they don't want to diet and train. Go straight to the lipo and whatever else they do. The easy way out.

Your trip in this life is very provisional, but the best thing you can do in your life to live in the right way is to take every day as a great opportunity to do what you can and when you're as lucky as I have been in life in getting so much attention and exposure, you learn that you can move mountains with a very small effort.

If I wouldn't have medaled at the Olympics, it still would have been a successful trip. The medal is the icing on the cake.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

When you put a lot into something, the triumphs are so overwhelming with joy.

Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.

It's very difficult to have the same motivation in the season after you've won two trophies.

If you want trophies, they don't get given to you, you have to earn them, you have to play well in big games.

It's difficult to win trophies with Dortmund but it's always possible. And when it happens, the feeling is simply indescribable.

We're not working for participation trophies. We're trying to win championships and win football games.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.

There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

Ask any batsman what gives him maximum satisfaction. It's scoring runs, whether it's Ranji Trophy or any form of the game. When you get back to your room, knowing that you have scored a hundred, it gives you satisfaction.

I tell our team all the time, nobody once in the history of this great game - nor will they ever, I hope - has stood at a championship stage or podium holding a championship trophy and say, 'We out-finessed everybody.'

You take every opportunity you have to win a trophy. That is always the goal, and winning makes it a little bit easier the next time.

Whatever games came my way, I tried to give my best, do whatever I could to win matches for the team, be it at the Ranji Trophy level, India A, IPL: this was always on my mind.