Quotes About Effort

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

Humiliation stimulates effort

It's not how many years you've got. It's how you use them.

that was an ugly win, but a great one. They're all great, aren't they?

Important learning occurs when a struggle is examined and analyzed, diagnosed, and a prescription offered. Ergo, make it work. I believe that we all benefit from the make-it-work practice.

Although there are few things easier than throwing on a dress, something about them communicates that you have made an effort.

The bowler wants to win the game. The batsman needs to bat well to get runs. No question about it.

There's no reason why I cannot do my best every game or every practice.

There's no reason to be involved in the sport if I'm not going to fight to my best ability.

You can train so hard and eat bad stuff and you're training for no reason.

There's really no secret to success. You make your own success.

It's no secret that I'm a fan of hitting a lot of balls.

There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.

It's such a long season, right? It's certainly serious business, but it's no sense that we all have to be miserable doing it.

I tell my players this - I can go out there and get conditioned if I just go out there and run every day. I'm not going to do that, not like they do; but I could do that. Any of us in here can do that. That really takes no talent; it just takes hard work, effort.

I have seen both extremes; when there was no work, I was frustrated and now that I'm overworked, I feel the same. I'm looking for a balance now.

Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.

Nobody knows the hard work that goes in the morning before I do anything.

When it comes down to digging, can't nobody dig as hard as I can dig.

Nobody's easy until after you beat them.

Nobody cares what anyone did last year, whether you were good, whether you were bad, everybody has ambitions and aspirations for this year. But it really doesn't matter until you go out there and prove it and you go out there and do it.

You make a little noise, and you can sell out your local hometown club. But then you drive an hour down the road to the next town, and there might be eight people there.

I was just focused on winning games for the Magic. I was just trying to play at a very high level, just trying to block out all the noise. I had some good games.

Subject is very important. If you're going to write non-fiction the style means nothing or very little. The content justifies the effort you need to put into the writing itself.