Quotes About Effort

Be active to your full capabilities.

I'll just try and try and perform to the best of my capabilities.

If I'm not capable of doing it, I won't do it. But you're going to get 120 percent of me every time I'm on the field.

There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.

Being in my rhythm, I can never tell whether I got 15 carries or 25 carries. It's never really a difference to me. I just go out and play.

If it's five carries, if it's 10 carries, whatever it is, I'm willing to give it my best effort - 100 percent.

I do want to carry on my dad's legacy, but I also want to carve out my own path. I have to work harder, I think, just because I do have that last name. I don't want people to think that's why I am where I am in this industry. I put in the time, and I want to be just as good as my dad was.

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

In most cases, in this sport, for guys to advance in this sport, you gotta fight. If you don't fight, you're not making it, because it's too competitive.

I've done a lot of casual work, and acting is a lot easier than laying carpets.

Just because the office is casual doesn't mean you shouldn't make an effort.

Can't ever catch enough balls.

We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here.

You've got to catch the ball.

I think when you lose the fight, it's not the end of the world. You can keep training and catch up and try again better, you know?

I've tried to put myself in every position possible to be able to catch the football. Until you challenge yourself at a particular catch, or a particular area of the field to make a particular catch, you would never know if you can make that catch.

It ain't about catching 20, 30 whatever. If I catch two I catch two, if I catch 10 I catch 10, as long as we win, that's all that matters to me.

Because of who I am and what I've accomplished, everything is pretty much given to me. People cater to me all the time. It's almost like I've lost that edge - lost the ability to want something and then put in the work necessary to get it.

Some guys train more, some guys train less; everyone needs to cater to what works best for them.

It's not about me. I think people are too caught up with what I'm doing. It's just numbers. I'm trying to win.

Have you ever held a job that caused a body part to hurt at the end of the day? Because my feeling is, if you can't answer yes to that question, you are in big trouble in trying to understand the country you live in.

You want to be the best at work in order to go out and celebrate.