Quotes About Effort

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.

Sport is not maths.

For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

Doing a sport film is not easy.

Sport can never be scripted. What I had in my control was to be the best that I could be every single shot.

Cricket is semi-pro for women in Australia, but the girls work damn hard, and it's credit to them to try and grow the sport.

Football is a collective sport and many times it doesn't depend on you playing well. It depends if the team is playing well.

I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

We play sports to win.

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.

That's what you live for as a sportsman. You have to put up a fight.

I like to teach. And when I spot talent without ambition, it makes me angry. I give students short shrift if they're not willing to do the work. Relying on talent is not enough.

It's what makes everybody better, that pressure for a spot and competing.

If I didn't have competition and I didn't have people trying to take my spot, then it can make someone lazy. So it does the exact opposite. It motivates me.

In other ways, one way to be in a lineup or stay in a lineup or stay in a spot is to produce.

I'm trying to be number one. I'm doing the best I can and working the hardest I've ever worked to ensure I've got that number one spot.

Just gotta try to have fun. It's a business. You just gotta come out there and play hard because you never know when another player might take your spot.

It is always a battle; it doesn't matter in which club or which position. If you don't perform well, even when you start, you might lose your spot in any position.

Whatever it takes to get on the field and get that starting spot to get the carries. I've always worked hard.