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I've been pretty good about keeping my nose to the grindstone. I feel like I won a lot of matches from hard work and persistence, even maybe when I had better options as far as shot-making.

When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But I find joy in the actual process, the journey, the work. It's not the end. It's not the end event.

Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

It's always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, I've been lucky with the things I've been asked to do.

As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.

I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.