Quotes About Effort

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.

It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout

You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.