Dick Dale Quotes

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

Whatever it is that you do, dial it up to a 10 because for me people won't necessarily think I am the best wrestler in the world, but I can do what others can't.

People single you out when they think you're not giving your all. When they see you giving it all you have, they don't get on your case.

It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more.

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

The only way to know how much is enough, is to do too much, and then back up.

I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.

When a black person is acting up or showing off, somebody might say she's 'wilin' out.' In sports, an athlete who really takes it to another level has entered 'beast mode,' which happens to be the nickname of the former Seattle Seahawks superstar Marshawn Lynch.

I give 110 per cent all the time.

I give 110 percent, and that's in practice and every game and everything.

I try everyday to give it my 110%.

Every time I step out on court, I leave 150 per cent out there. That's the bare minimum.

There are times when you got to put a little 'extra' in, especially on a card at WrestleMania or SummerSlam because it's no time to hold anything back. You have to pull out all of the stops.

You should always give 100%. If you do that then no-one can ask any more of you. Someone once said to me when I was a kid: 'If you're asked to do ten sprints, by all means do 11 but never do nine because you're only cheating yourself'.

I always try to overachieve. I feel I have something to prove every day.

I always thought it was important to overdeliver, and when I got one of my first jobs, writing jokes for Garry Shandling when he was hosting the Grammys, I stayed up all night and wrote a hundred jokes, and I thought, "I'm always going to be the person that gives them more than they requested, and that's why they'll want to keep me around."

It is better to do too much than to do too little.

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

I am not trying to do material which I cannot do full out.

I already gave my best.