Uncompromising Effort Quotes

You ask what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, be sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us…. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer that in one word: It is victory, victory at all cost, victory in spite of all terror, victory no matter ho long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I try to be committed, always. When I do something, I like to do it 100 per cent.

Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

There are no half-hearted champions.

Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

If I go down, it's never easy. At least my opponent knows they have to go to the end of the earth to take me out no matter what the circumstances. I do try to compete. Even if it's not your best day, I just try to walk off the court knowing I gave 100,000 percent.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.

Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up.

We try to pride ourselves in having a chip and being hungry every game.

When my entire focus is on training and just preparing... I just do 100-percent that and nothing else.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.

If you're going to do something, you do it all the way.

The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.

If I didn't get paid to play this game, I'd still play it the exact same way, with as much intensity and as much focus as I play it with now.

God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

I've always played with a high intensity anyway. That's how I've always been.

Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.

You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises attached to it, comes to be given a kind of arbitrary but persistent importance.

Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.