Quotes About Effort

The little things are what get you to the next level. I believe in the little things. The screens you don't see in the stats, the hockey assists. I'm a big believer in that.

You just go out there and do the best you can. If it hits, it hits. And if it doesn't, you go on to the next thing.

I get great satisfaction from trying to get better and trying to do the next thing as well as I can.

I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.

My daughters have become little judges. If I do produce a baked item, they tut at the soggy bottom and advise me to try harder next time.

There's no such thing as 'next time we'll do it better.' Do it better this time.

The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything.

For me, I always feel that I'm not sure what's going to happen next year or what's going to happen the year after or what's in the future. So I really kind of just focus on the project at hand and try to do the best that I can. And that, for me, is as much as I can control.

It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she could.' Also that I'm a nice person... and a good mother.

Making food is a labor of love - it's a nice thing to do for your loved ones to show you care about them, that you took the time to make them something. But for me, I don't cook. I would much rather hop in my car and go to a restaurant.

It is not easy to get out of it. It is much nicer to be fighting at the top of the league but it is only nicer if you can get something at the end of it.

That's the nicest part of football; you can't do everything to stop a player.

Nick Diaz brings it every single time and I bring it every single time.

I have busy nights.

There were nights I was at home crying, thinking I'd never make it. I'd get up the next day and go to the audition, do my best, and try my hardest.

Everybody is going to have tough shooting nights. It's natural.

There's no off nights. When you think it's an off night, it's not.

Anytime you can start the season off with a new organization and see all the work they put in - guys in the shop that I don't even know are working late nights.

Some nights you're going to have a lot of energy, some nights you're not. The great ones find energy from nothing.

You just go out there and try to do your best. Some days are great. Other nights, it's maybe not your day. It's the other guy's day.

Some nights, depending on who you're going up against, some guys are just capable of hitting tough shots.

There's some nights you shoot the ball better than others. When you don't shoot it well, you have to have an understanding you can play well by doing other things.