Quotes About Focus

Track and field is tougher physically, but golf is tougher mentally.

That's what has always been good about track. The goal is very clearly defined: Try to win. Get the gold medal. And I'm able to put my energy toward that.

I do the whole 10-event thing, but at the end of the day, it's still track and field.

This is a highly competitive sport, and we are all very passionate when we are on the track.

One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.

I always practice, even on the cat tracks or in those interstitial periods. My dad says, 'Even when you're just stopping, be sure to do it right, maintaining a good position, with counter-rotational force.' These are the kinds of things my dad says, and I'm like, 'Shut up.'

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.

It's hard, when you are hearing things with the rumors that you are going to be traded, to be focused.

I always liked acting in school and drama classes, but when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always told them I wanted to be a singer. I didn't want to be a jack of all trades. I wanted to master one.

It stinks to give up a good player. But if you think that way, you'll never make any trades. You have to focus on what you're getting back.

Our job is to play basketball, not worry about trades.

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.

We need to remind ourselves that Europe will be our biggest trading partner for the next several decades and probably beyond, so getting the deal with Europe right should be our primary focus.

Trading demands total concentration and the ability to do several things at once while instantly recalling trading prices from the day, or week, before.

I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

The present moment is that one point where everything comes together.

I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together, which is basically what a film is.

We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus.