Quotes About Focus

Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

Whenever I was done with a scene, I'd go back to my trailer, relax and go over my lines. I'd think, 'I can't wait to get out there.'

I train, eat, sleep, and repeat.

I train every day to be the best goalkeeper in the world; that is my aim.

Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

It is not enough to have talent alone. You will have to train hard and motivate yourself to do your best. You should learn to live for your sport.

A lot of fighters have skills, they have talent. The one thing that you can't train is a strong mind.

When I was competing, I would run daily 20 kilometers, and in addition to that, I'd put in many hours of fighting and sparring. That's why I was always able to keep the speed in the ring. I would train so hard that sometimes it was not only hard to stand up, but it would also be hard to lay down.

A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time.

I can't remember the last day I didn't train.

For me, it's very hard to train too much, just sparring, sparring, sparring. It's boring.

I know everyone thinks Dad is a little bit crazy with his training, because we train a lot harder and do more kilometres and stuff than most pentathletes. Training is full-on. It's seven or eight hours a day.

If you want to become a professional football player at any level, when you're growing up, you have to make sacrifices, and it's very difficult. It's not easy, but you have to train hard, you have to live right, and you have to rest.

I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to sell the house or find a new career.' I was not in a good place, but it was a real spur to get 'The Girl on the Train' right. I had to nail it and do it really well. It really concentrates the mind, that kind of thing.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.

It's important to train even if you're not batting. You just have to do that routine every time.

Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.

I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.

While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech.