Quotes About Focus

I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the football aspect of it.

Golf is about power and balance, and it's the same in fighting. If you have confidence in your physicality, you're going to be mentally strong.

I need to be on a bike, mentally as much as physically.

Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

Training camp for me is a day-by-day thing. It's a grind. If you lose focus on what you're trying to work on, you won't be there mentally, and it'll be tough physically.

My father was a rather active guy, and he was often engaged in something if not physically, then mentally.

It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I really invest a lot... physically and emotionally on my work.

There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage and performing live theater. It's extremely demanding. I have to be in ballet class every day.

Being an athlete, my job was to physically perform.

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist.

When it comes to sports, it requires a lot mentally and physically.

Feeling physically strong in the morning truly helps me keep focused the rest of the day.

You love the competitive one-on-one aspect, where you look across the net, and you're trying to beat your opponent. You're doing everything you physically can to win on that day.

For my whole career, I concentrated on that cycle of games from August to May and being mentally and physically ready.

The teams that you come across, they are not physically super-human, they are just very good. So it is asking what do we about that. How do we take on the challenge?

If you miss one day in physics, that's it.

In high school, I was very good in math and physics. I wasn't good at much of anything else. Some people are good at a lot of things. I don't know how they choose what to do.

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers: one plays the piano with one's mind.

I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

I do a long sound check. I get there at noon on the day of a show and sit behind the piano and then walk around with the microphone. Then I feel like I have done my homework.

I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.