Quotes About Focus

In practice, I don't only bowl yorker.

My mind became so frazzled by the end of the 1974 season that I decided the thing to do was give up playing for England and concentrate on Yorkshire. I felt the only way to succeed was to captain and play every match for Yorkshire.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

You just have to take a deep breath, relax and let the game come to you.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

Even though it's hard to learn how to back your car out the driveway at first, once it becomes a habit, you can do it almost automatically and think about something else, like the meeting that you need to go to today or what's on the radio.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

Yes, we have to look at our opponents and study our opponents. But you have to look at you first and know you can do it.

Preparation goes on even when you are out of the team, as you can do it anywhere.

When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.

If there is something that's your passion when you're young, do it. Let everything else take care of itself.

So many young designers are focused on styling rather than materials now. We have to change that.

I feel like there's a dangerous culture among young actors of going to posey joints and socialising - not doing hard work. I don't want to go and hang out in Soho House L.A. That's literally my worst nightmare. I'd rather be at home reading scripts.

Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to navigate for the next day's work.

I really loved football from a young age. And my only thought, my only objective in life, was to be a professional footballer.