Quotes About Focus

When I signed for Espanyol, all I was thinking about was that I needed continuity in the first division.

The only thing you are really here to do is play football. So when you get a chance to go to the draft, and that part is over with, and you get signed on to a team, and you're ready to go, now it's back to everything you've been doing to get to this point, and that's play football.

I started full-time training when I was 10, signed professionally when I was 14, and won my first match at the same age.

Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

There's no extra significance on beating a certain player. It's kind of like golf. You're just out there playing, and whatever ends up happening ends up happening.

We need to change the focus from celebrating sales at the mall to celebrating the significance of President Washington's birth to the birth of our nation.

By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

Instead of signing 10 films a year, I'd rather do a couple of films where I can give my best performance and am appreciated by audiences.

When you get that signing bonus, don't start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.

There's no dollar signs involved when I'm playing football.

Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.

I work in silence.

I need complete silence when I write.

I start any work the same way. I start a rehearsal with silence.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

I like working in silence.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.

I believe with a lot of support shows, people are very much there to see the headliner. You don't necessarily have their full attention, and some of what we do requires a lot of silence.

Sometimes, as a former football player, we have to go into that away game and silence the crowd. And just let them know I am the man. I'm going to be here for a long time.

If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.

I work on my own music every day. I'm pretty much always working on it so it's like, after I get out the studio, I just want silence.

I'm a silent assassin - I can say that.