Quotes About Focus

When you are a footballer, you eat, sleep, and breathe football. If I have a bad training session, I can go home and do whatever I want, but you still feel an emptiness.

Any time I'm in the gym, I'm training my butt off.

Training, that's my specialty.

Every training I want to prove myself, every practice.

My coach has taught me since 5 years old, and he stresses not just the quality of training but the mental part. Technique and the mental game have to mesh, balance.

It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

I didn't know much. It wasn't possible to buy a book about Nurmi, but I found out that in order to be faster over 10,000m, he ran 5,000m many times in training. And to be better at 5,000m, he ran 1,500m many times. And to be better at 1,500m, he ran four times 400m in training.

I always demand intensity in training. That's my style, and I like it.

I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

I'm good at separating my personal life from racing. When I'm at track, it's race time; when I'm away from it, other than the fact I'm training to be fit for it, there is nothing at home that makes me even want to think about racing. I just want to enjoy my life, and by the time the next race comes around, I'm ready and excited for it.

It's all about training smart.

I like to empty my mind and focus on developing my abilities in training.

It's not just about training, it's about playing competitive football.

If you are not fighting and not training, it does have an effect on you no matter who you are.

I don't think my natural talent is much different to the other gymnasts. It is a matter of how I train and how I think about my training. I also give a lot of thought to my routines.

Everyone who knows me knows how serious I take my training, they know how disciplined I am, they know how much I respect this sport and how much work I put into this sport.

It's really nice to be able to go into the offseason and attack the training as soon as possible.

It's not like I'm training every day by doing an avalanche suplex off the top turnbuckle.

Besides training, you need to be focused and not shy away from hard work.

But the focus for actors is always towards acting. It is very obvious that they don't need to have training in professional music.

Strength training is an important part of every athlete's training program, but for me it's become almost like a sanctuary.

Players like Messi and Xavi are always hungry. Whatever the game or the competition - even if it is table-tennis - they want to win. We used to play two-touch football games after training and they would always be desperate to win. It taught you about life as well as football.