Quotes About Effort

Well, screw him. I'd tried my best.

Tearing down is always easier than building up

think if you love someone, you make an effort to suppress habits of yours that displease them, right? But those habits or inclinations are still there. Sam

My golf game is lacking big time.

You're always working to try and climb that ladder.

For me the important thing is I have four honest lads in front of me who give their everything.

I think I laid it all out there for 19 years, and you don't always achieve all the goals that you shoot for.

If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

The most learning I do is in meetings and board work and the film room. That's what happens. When you work hard there, you play well on the field. So that's what I do.

When I was 16 I had a table at home in Melbourne and I hardly ever practised.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

Production is a lot of work. Nobody sent me that memo when they came to me to do television.

You're not going to get a seven-star match or six or five in a seven-minute segment, but I always do the best I can to make that segment memorable and entertaining, and I think that's always the name of the game.

Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough.

I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.

I've got the same mentality every time I step on the floor - play my hardest and just be locked in.

I have to concentrate on my job and try to do my best in the things that I know. Coaching the team and trying to have a winning mentality.

You are born with the talent; then you work with it. You develop the right mentality.

When I was about 15, I learnt that training hard doesn't get easier, you just learn to push harder. That's a powerful mentality to master.

The more mental strength you have, the better. If you look at some of the best players that we have seen over the years and that I have been playing with, mentally they are the best competitors as well, something I have worked hard on.

When I get on a course that's not very good, that's not tough, I fall asleep. Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.

I've always worked my butt off physically and mentally.

With Evander Holyfield, I anticipate this being a hard fight. But each time out, you don't want it to be a hard fight. Not to mention, you burn yourself out that way.