Quotes About Effort

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

Anytime you're pushing the envelope as hard as you can to be successful at anything at life it's easy to go from hero to zero in a second.

I try to help the team. It doesn't matter if you have to score 50 points or zero.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn't be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It's a surprise to me that this hasn't happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

There is no comfort zone. You continue to work hard, to be consistent and to deliver performances.

I love to take up projects outside my comfort zone and give them my best.

You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.

I've got a philosophy I call 'no dancing in the end zone.' You score, get back, and run another play.

I'm going to give all my will and all my guts to try to get the ball in the end zone.

I'm trying to work on it - not cheating, stopping in the 'D' zone, all that kind of stuff.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Acceptance and Work If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me, I mistrust it.

The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get him the chicken.

If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy.

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.

God helps them that helps themselves.

Oh Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.