Extreme Effort Quotes

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

I will get out there and train harder than anyone, five times a day sometimes. You have to be a special person to do that - like, special forces, military maybe.

I worked 120 hours a week for eight years. That's 20 to 22 hours a day every day and one week I only got 15 hours sleep.

Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme.

I'm willing to put my body on the line and stuff like that, just to get a taste of that greatness.

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

When I go, I go hard.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

The Tour de France is ridiculously hard.

If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

My philosophy is that on a scale of 1 to 10, I will go to 15. No matter what!

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.