Quotes About Effort

Everybody's dream is to win a championship, but not everyone gets that chance. The only thing you can do is make sure you don't look back and have to wonder whether you did everything you could have done. I know I'll be able to look back and feel I had a good, honest career.

I have put a lot of energy and focus into capturing the Cruiserweight Championship, but obviously I didn't get the job done.

I might win a championship. I might win two or three. I might not. The journey to get there is, for me, the most important.

It's always a challenge to try to get a championship.

Not everyone can win the European Championship.

Winning the championship becomes more difficult every year.

Any game in the Championship is going to be difficult.

If you win two games, one game or three games, you can still say it's luck. But when you win a championship over 18 games, it's not luck.

It's very tough to build a championship team. It takes time and good players, and you have to get lucky as well.

Going out there and losing is so easy. I want stuff to be hard - that's why I want to win championships, I want to win games.

It's tough to win championships no matter what.

I want to go and get more goals, create my chances for the team, and do my best for Tottenham Hotspur.

It's not important how many mistakes you make; it's about how many chances you create and how many goals you score. That is my philosophy.

If you are loose and not quite taking clear-cut chances in training, then clearly you are not going to do that come match time.

Scoring goals comes and goes with time, but the most important thing is that we continue creating chances. The entire team must work, and we then have to score goals.

You have to work hard and your chances will come.

If you don't score when you have chances then things start to get difficult.

I want to create chances and also maybe score.

This is really bad, when you create so many chances but you can't finish well.

I've worked my butt off to get to where I am. I know that any chances that I'm getting is because I've worked hard and I've gotten myself to this level.

You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

The fact is as you get older you can't just change things or be quite as laissez-faire; you're conscious of the effort and time it takes for things to happen.

It's really hard to chase a lofty dream.