Efforts Quotes (3708 Quotes)

It's not an effort or initiative I feel is necessary, nor do the majority of people in town.

I though the defense did all right, but they got fatigued pretty early, ... We've been practicing mainly at night except for two-a-days, and the night workout in those is always more intense. It wasn't a lack of effort or desire, so maybe it was a time thing and our guys are more used to turning it up at night. But with this hot, muggy morning, they got tired in a hurry.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

This holiday card is a great way to inextricably link the hearts of New Yorkers with those of the people in New Orleans. The effort will have a great impact on the residents of Louisiana, as people in the affected areas see how much their friends up north care about them. It's a great gesture and we're proud to be a part of it.

We played good defense and played hard. I felt like it was a total team effort.

That will come. I don't worry about individual stats. I just want to make sure we get the effort and he is giving us great effort, so that is all I care about.

If you don't have the president repeatedly telling his staff that he wants this job done, then the natural bureaucratic barriers ally to slow and eventually block progress.... If you were serious about this, if you really thought that the No. 1 threat was a terrorist getting hold of a nuclear weapon and hitting the United States with it ... you would vastly accelerate the effort to eliminate that material before the terrorists could get it.

They (the team) didn't want to end the season today. This was a good, solid, team effort.

DeMorius had a good night and Markie had some good, tough runs on second effort.

We're happy with the effort. Unfortunately we hit some balls right at some people tonight and they didn't get through and that's baseball. It seems to be going like that for us, but we're going to catch our breaks.

It was a good effort. Their attitudes have been really great. They have to come back and work harder in practice. I'm sure it's a little frustrating. They've been so close so many times. They need to get over the edge.

There are things we can build on and have a really good football team, ... The kids coming back on the plane last night - there were no heads down. I think they were proud of their effort. They knew they were in the ballgame until the very end, that they had a chance to win. I think they'll be an easy group to rally to get ready to play an unbelievably good Wisconsin team.

We did some good things. We are very confident in what we have. We just need to make some adjustments. We had some good individual efforts. We just need to put four quarters together.

I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

Efforts to consolidate the number of vendors or to provide middleware platforms that consolidate these systems will be important components of risk projects for the next few years.

In the second half, I was really proud of our kids. I thought we played with a lot of character and a lot of effort.

T.M.O. has been a great source of grass-roots wisdom on a variety of issues, ... It was natural to look to them to be part of overall community efforts.

This campaign is extremely important, both for Iraq and the global eradication effort. After tremendous efforts, Iraq was declared a polio-free country, with zero cases reported in 2001. The re-emergence of even a single polio case will take Iraq back to the pre-2001 situation, which would imply that millions of dollars more would have to be invested.

I'm very pleased with our effort. We competed hard, recorded a number of season best times - and none of it came easy, which is good for us. It was a really intense weekend for our team, but we still have one more meet left, so we're ready to come home and go back to work.

She was the bridge that helped us carry on. She stood up with such strength and grace and kept the movement in the forefront of America's mind. She institutionalized the efforts and philosophies of Dr. King.

We use our hands and our feet and our forearms and our elbows and knees and actually the weight of the whole body. There are parts of it that are a cooperative ... effort where it actually is two people, the practitioner and the receiver, in a pose together.

We've had some good moments, just not complete efforts. I felt the kids played hard for four quarters. It was probably the most complete effort of the year, no doubt.

We weren't sloppy. We played well down the stretch. We needed a stop or two that we didn't get. I thought we gave a good effort. Basically, the statistics were the same except for one.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

Students have a tremendous amount to give to this effort, and their idealism and energy is needed in the Gulf. These young people are recognizing the importance of being citizens, not simply spectators, and their growing engagement in hurricane relief bodes very well for our nation.

They played great today. Everyone contributed to the win, it was a real team effort.

Morris talks a good game about the problem, but when push comes to shove, he and his company stonewall any effort in Congress to require mandatory global warming pollution limits.

Deflationary pressures in food continue to be severe and are not projected to ease until the second quarter. Better buying and category management efforts are expected to result in some gross margin improvement.

All the hard work the kids put in, the time and effort, it's good to see it pay off. I'm really just proud of the kids for everything they've done.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

It's just a phenomenal effort, ... You have to think of it as a marathon. If you think you can do it in a short time, you'll get very frustrated.'

We reached out to other casinos on the Strip, but everyone was filled. Our main effort was to make our guests as comfortable as they could be until the situation was resolved.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

The kids' effort is great. They're playing hard, doing everything we ask. We're trying to get everybody healthy at the same time. At that time I know we'll be real effective.

I am definitely proud of the effort these kids are giving. They played hard for four quarters. The effort has been there all season and when you consider how very frustrated they have been through the adversity in wins and losses, you have to be impressed. I can't say enough about their effort.

It's safe to say that Apple is restricting supply to their own stores in an effort to, in my opinion, force people into their own stores.

It's tournament time, so you have to keep a constant effort, and that's what we tried to get done tonight. Nobody let up. At halftime coach just nailed into us that we need to keep playing hard, and that's what we tried to do.

He wanted to talk. I had a plan B in place for a referendum effort. .... I appreciate Doug stepping up. I think he did a good job. I think we have a guy we can work with.

I hope we are not creating a sense of panic... because we need the public's trust to encourage governments to begin or continue pandemic preparedness efforts.

The idea of the event is that if you come to the events and are moved by them, then you can sign up for one of the numerous organizations that will be there. It is a community effort.

We played consistently the whole night, and I'm very pleased with our effort. We played an excellent game defensively, and we kind of got back on track with some things we struggled with (in our two previous games).

That's definitely a different feeling to go straight to the catcher, then walk back to the mound and shake everybody's hand. I'm giving effort. I just try to stay really calm. I find that works for me. If I stay calm and relaxed, my body does what it's supposed to do.

Against Mercy we played with no intensity. It was not a good effort. We appeared sluggish, but Mercy was very good, very quick. Mercy is a good team that played well.

When we were down by 19 I'm sure people left to go watch the other game. It came down to earning some respect. We decided to go out and leave everything on the floor. I think the kids earned that respect with their effort.

The women's team has a solid pack through six runners, and we won't plan to rely on just one person to compete well. It will be a true team effort.

Those two guys Dalby and Ben Crouse did very well. I thought Ryan Miller did well also at right back. He put a lot of energy into the game, a lot of effort.

Any time you win the effort categories as far as getting more rebounds diving on the floor getting a loose basketball, then you have more possessions to get an opportunity to score more points. It's just something coach (Matt) Painter tried to instill in us since we started practicing. We got to get every loose ball.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

It really was a spectacular team effort. Many, many people were spending lots of extra hours to make sure this thing got done.