Quotes About Effort

He who tip-toes cannot stand he who strides cannot walk.

Some people are worth all the effort it takes to love them, or to show them that they're worth loving.

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

lt takes guts to play defense, because you can loaf out on the court and nobody will know it. Only you will know if you did your best to grab a loose ball, or stop your man from scoring.

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody–somewhere–was practicing more than me.

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

when you think you have done enough, do a little more, because someone out there is working harder than you.

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Execution has to be a part of a company's strategy and its goals. It is the missing link between aspirations and results. As such, it is a major—indeed, the major—job of a business leader. If you don't know how to execute, the whole of your effort as a leader will always be less than the sum of its parts.

Hard work can get you far, but never underestimate how much luck plays in life. Can you make your own luck? No; that's why they call it luck, but you can be open when it comes along. Try not to be angry at people who squander their luck. Bastards.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

twould appear that if Fred Lemish spent half as much time writing as he did hoping Dinky Adams would say "I love you," he'd have a ten-foot shelf. And if Dinky Adams spent half as much time legitimately planting and fertilizing as he did scattering his seeds to the winds, he'd be New York's leading gardener. Though, of course, as we shall continue to see, he already is.

We didn't win because we had more talent than other teams. We won because we had more endurance.

We overtrained.

Success comes from what you do, not from what you say you are going to do.

What it takes that most people aren't willing to give is work. Hard work. Work on yourself, work on your life, and working while you are at work.

Your situation will improve right after YOU improve.

Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.

When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that.

Thou wishest fame! ambition in thy soul Bids thee toil onward to the distant goal, And holds the dazzling prize before the view, Fought for by many; gained by ah, how few!

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.