Quotes About Effort

I can only compare myself to the players I was playing against. To say I won the Order of Merit playing only seven events out of 17 was to me a big achievement.

I'm going to mess up. But I'm going to get back, you know, and get after it and try to do better the next day.

You can only gain the real intricacies of playing by playing. You can study the playbook all you want and you can ask as many questions, but until you're out there out of the field doing it, that's the only way is to mess it up, or do it right and cement and then learn from it.

There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

The message I really want to get out there is that I'm someone who works hard, gets the most out of his talent, off the course has a great family life.

Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.

When you come off that last hole and you've just finished a good round of golf, life is good. When you come off that last hole and you messed it up through four or five holes and just played a lousy round of golf, it's just not a very good day. It just isn't.

It's true: with players like Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, it's difficult to catch them.

I guess there are worse things than being compared to Messi but I don't look at what he is doing. I just try to give my best for my team.

Lionel Messi is very difficult to contain.

If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.

That's when you start messing up, when you put too much pressure on yourself. Just come into the game clear and just try to play hard.

I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!

While we don't always 'get' metal, we're doing our very best.

Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I like music.

You just go out and do the best that you can. I think people feel that, and they embrace it, and it's a part of what makes Metallica special.

Work hard but with a smile, this is the best method.

At the end of the day, it's all about the players. We can talk methodology or analytics, but it's about the guys on the field.

Look, we're the Miami Heat, so we know how to work, we know how to grind.

The cat with gloves catches no mice.

I do believe that at Microsoft in general good work is rewarded, and I have seen it many times here.

I think I've shown that I can get up the middle, create some separation, and catch the ball.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.