Quotes About Effort

I will leave no stone unturned as far as hard work is concerned.

I wouldn't recommend sports betting as a career. It requires a ton of effort and mastery of many different skills, and successful bettors are unwilling to teach you because you would be their competition.

There's a sort of unwritten rule that the more elaborate the task is, the less likely it is to work. If we spend a lot of money on a big prop, it almost certainly won't make it.

Showing up is like 90 percent of the battle, and just make sure your hair is really cute.

Success doesn't motivate me as much as integrity does. Everyone loses. I enjoy the pressure of showing up every single day, being focused, putting forth my best effort, getting the best out of my teammates, and enjoying the journey.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.

This game is crazy. You're up and down, up and down. When you feel good, you want to be there every time for the team.

My journey has been up and down a little bit. Everything that has to do with success for me has sort of become a shock to me. You work so hard, you work so hard, and it happens; you're like, 'What? Wait, it's happening to me?'

As long as I'm moving up and down the court pretty good, I'm happy.

I'd have moments when I'd show potential, but I could never get a good period where I'd string some form together and get results. It was up and down the whole time and I was getting frustrated.

I learned you work for what you get, and I feel sorry for people who haven't had that upbringing.

That's my upbringing. Try, if it doesn't work out, try again. It was the same thing with Parliament.

I'm a jeans and t-shirts kind of guy, but there have definitely been moments where I'm like, 'You know what? I need to upgrade a little bit.' I've tried to snazz things up as much as I can, with me being as lazy as I am.

The road to success runs uphill.

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.

I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go through it to know exactly what a titanic effort that was going to be.

For me it has always been an uphill battle because my mind's always racing a mile-a-minute.

I find the ones that have the most emotional weight, the heaviest songs. For some reason, for me, they're usually the ones I write the quickest. I put more work into uplifting material, I think, sometimes.

The new upper class devotes incredible amounts of effort to raising their kids but that also includes incredible amounts of effort in getting their kids into the right preschool in some elite communities which I think is going a little bit too far.

I just love walking around the Upper East Side and seeing those guys who didn't just take an extra 10 minutes in the morning to get ready, but an extra 40 minutes.

If you want to win, when you want to get to the upper echelons of this league, everybody on the roster is going to sacrifice.

If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.