Quotes About Effort

You don't need only your strikers. You need your defenders to be on top of their game. You need a midfield to work hard and track back, and I suppose you need a goalkeeper who makes saves once in a while.

Mario Mandzukic works so hard for his team. He's not only a No. 9 but also runs behind the defenders and drops into midfield.

There are times when I am supposed to get off work by seven but only reach home by midnight because of production delays.

But I think in the midst of working, you can't get too crazy serious.

In the midst of having great fights, sometimes you have good fights and sometimes you just have a fight.

It hurts when you're always doing your best for your club, and then you hear that you might be going to Tottenham.

My brother Mike is the hardest working person I know.

Who doesn't fight cannot play for my Milan.

I think about Milan from morning to night, and there is certainly no lack of effort and desire on my part.

You got to be able to work hard. And that's what I do. I work hard, because that's what's necessary. You have to go that extra mile.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

In China, they appreciate someone who has worked hard. They say it is incredible to win seven world championships. I know it is, but it's a shame I have to go 10,000 miles to get the whole crowd behind me.

You get that air of satisfaction from achievement. It makes you feel good. We are only here for a very short time, and so you're crazy if you don't go out and try to milk it to the greatest extent you can.

There are millions of ­people out there, who every day want to get the opportunity to do the work we are doing and it's a short career. That is why I give it my all at every given opportunity.

When I'm not on the ice, I do interval work on the bike or the elliptical, trying to mimic a four-minute routine. But it doesn't come close.

You can't just declare that you have a growth mindset. Growth mindset is hard.

I have this mindset and mentality every time I touch the score, and I really truly believe that. It's something I try to do a little too much.

If we have given everything we can, you are not settling for mediocrity because the better team won. Sometimes you have to have that mindset to be able to improve rather than keep telling yourself you should have won.

This is the NBA; you can't stop everybody from scoring 30. But that 30? They're going to work for every point they get. And that's my mindset.

I went into the audition room with the mindset that 'Little Fires' was going to be my last audition. I put my all into it, but I didn't get my hopes up.

You try and do the best you can whenever you are out there. It's just an individual mindset that when I do get the opportunity then do what I do to help the team.

Everybody's got a job to do, and I do mine as best I can.

I put my parents through mini hell with my laziness and poor grades, so I love making them laugh when they see me on television. When I work, I'm always thinking, 'Would my mother find this funny?' The belly-laugh jokes will hit her every time.