Quotes About Focus

As a fighter, that's not something that ever factors in, whether you go first or last or you walk out first or you walk out second. It's not something that ever factors in or you feel slighted about. I don't think that anybody would care. The job is the same.

I am very hard on myself. I know the slightest loss of concentration, the slightest mistake will be punished. I try to limit it as much as possible.

When somebody notices me in the slightest, I can feel the eyes - boom-boom - as soon as they pass.

There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary.

On stage I'm slightly nervous than when I'm in front of camera. Because when on the stage, the mind can't waiver but at the same time, the energy to be on the stage makes me feel alive.

I think having a kid is going to make me work harder in a way that's slightly overdue.

As a batter you are generally playing a mental game most of the time and having too long to prepare can work against you - you can almost fry yourself out before a Test match or feel slightly fatigued two games in because you have spent too long preparing.

I think if a batter's got the better of you naturally in the back of your mind you can go slightly defensive.

I can slip a punch, not by three inches, but by a centimetre. Just have it brush past me. And raise an eyebrow at the same time.

I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

When a big club takes the lead at home, then they cannot let it slip and be turned over.

I never let myself forget that our rivals are waiting for us to slip up and feed their hope of catching us.

For somebody like me who doesn't bowl, it's important to contribute in the field, and I've worked hard on that, slip catching.

When you let that discipline slip you're going to have big problems on the field.

The first to five, it's anyone's game. You only have to slip up in one leg, they get a break and then you're up against it.

You don't want to let your form slip because it can be hard to get back from that.

Players have exams, banquets, awards, and holidays, so it's easy to slip up and lose focus.

Nothing worse than walking out in a Test match and finding your hand slipping on the handle.

I spend a lot of my time thinking about how to spend my time. Probably too much - I probably obsess over it. My friends think I do. But I feel like I kind of have to, because these days, it feels like little bits of my time kind of slip away from me, and when that happens, it feels like parts of my life are slipping away.

It's about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, who think that they are in front, a sloppy touch, can cost you that elusive medal, just as much as the people who are gunning for you. If you believe you can get there right to the very end, miracles do happen.

You can't be a sloppy football team and be successful in the NFL.

Sometimes when you get eager, you get sloppy. Sometimes when you get sloppy, you get knocked out.

If you don't have that ambition you start to be sloppy and that is not what I like to be.