Quotes About Focus

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.

Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.

The word of the age is "multitasking"—shorthand for the idea that I'm paying attention to very little while giving the impression that I'm intently following five things.

When one does not know what one seeks, caution is the surest armour.

A lot of times,, you are not going to fit in; a lot of times you are going to have to skip those parties to get to where you want to be.

Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.

I don't think I focused on the financial part of it, but definitely, my ambition is to be great, and that always meant that the sky was the limit for what I was hoping to do.

The sky is the limit for me, but in boxing you have to take it one fight at a time.

I don't get complacent, because I know if you slack off, you're going to be found out. This is international boxing, and every fight is a tough fight.

The time you do get edgy and the time you do want to slack off is the time, boom, there goes your opportunity. So you don't want to have that.

I don't slack in my punches.

It's hard to slack off when you have these guys out there going 100 miles an hour around the ice.

Let's say, for example, I'm playing ball but I decide to slack in school. I feel like that's going to carry over to baseball, that mentality. So I've always tried to put my nose down and just give everything I've got in whatever it is I'm doing.

Winning a Grand Slam is not something I'll think about.

A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.

I never start anything 'I want to be No. 1. I want to win Grand Slam.' For me, no. It's always step by step. The only thing I want to do, it's to push the limit.

When you play the Grand Slam, you have just to give everything you have.

One thing that is 100% certain is that emotions are always incredibly high in a match and, I would imagine, definitely more so in a grand slam final.

Yeah, certainly you want to try to save your energy at a Grand Slam.

It doesn't matter the way you're playing, especially the beginning of a grand slam. It doesn't change anything.

Once you move into the second week of a Grand Slam, you know you are getting closer to playing on some of the world's biggest courts.

Writing is still on my slate.

When I work on multiple projects, I'm really good at dividing my days, so I start in the morning with a clean slate.