Quotes About Effort

I never was a great sports player. In fact, in fourth grade, I had the second to the worst softball throw.

The beauty of a game like softball is you're failing every day. You might have a .300 batting average, but you're still failing seven out of 10 times. But you're still good.

I sold burglar alarms for four weeks, which wasn't very long, but it was long enough.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

A lot of movie stars don't want to go to TV because of how hard you have to work. You have to be a soldier.

When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.

The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.

There's certain elements involved in pro wrestling that aren't solely down to the performer. There's only so much I can do. I've kind of stopped beating myself up about things not working out the way I want them to every time.

Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.

I don't think you have to go hit home runs to win races. I think we can get solid base hits with singles and doubles to put ourselves in a position to win.

The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.

I spent a good solid two years giving my all to Adrenaline Mob.

I was here all the time doing good films like 'Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar,' 'Kurukshetra' and 'Khiladi 420' but since they weren't solid hits, people didn't talk about them much.

That's what I normally pride myself on, being a solid defender and giving all my energy on the defensive end.

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.

Definitely, doing my solo stuff, it's fun in a different way. I get a lot more say. However, there's a lot more work to do because I have to make everything happen.

The experiences you gain by doing something solo - you have such a great work effort there as well, one we all have now - we can all bring it back to the group.

With writing, I prefer the solo effort, but when a team is working right, as it did on 'The Grifters,' boy, it's exhilarating.

I think fans acknowledged the effort I have made as a solo artist and as a member of Bigbang throughout the years. It is a very humbling yet gratifying achievement for me.

I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.

Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

We can all agree that government can't solve the obesity crisis alone. It's an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.

There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. And I think one of the things I learned with FUBU, you have to understand that there's really only two ways of operating a business: more sales, or lower overhead.