Quotes About Focus

I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.

I'm only 20; you've got your whole career ahead of you. I'm just focused on playing for West Ham and playing with a smile on my face and enjoying it.

Goals flow when you play with a smile and don't think too much.

After you have won a game, you can maybe smile for a minute and then you have to think: 'How can I recover as quickly as possible.'

Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.

I was always criticized through my whole career because I wasn't doing the whole smiling thing on stage. But I didn't feel like doing that, I felt like I was there for competition and it was tough and I wasn't there to smile.

It's really hard to smile when you play. As a performer, if I ever find myself focusing, it's like, 'Oh no - orchestra face!' It's not attractive at all, so I have to focus on smiling.

If I make a bogey I'm not going to be smiling walking off the hole and high-fiving people, but I'm going to be like, 'Okay, we need to make some birdies to get back in it.'

The only pictures you saw of me when I was playing, I was crashing into a centre forward! Or running down a line to save my team. I'm not gonna be happy, be smiling.

On that court, ain't no such thing as friends and smiling and everything like that.

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

Smoke screens are my favorite thing to do. After that catch, I feel, is my thing.

God just kept me on the right path. I never smoked, drank, none of that.

Sometimes when you've only got a few snaps, guys try to do too much and try to make too much happen.

You've got to focus on getting better at one thing at a time, every single drill, every single snap.

I'm about business. I'm going to handle business like a professional. Aside from that, I'm going to give you everything I've got on every snap.

I'm good at snap decisions. But if you let me, I will chew something to death.

It's not a goal of mine to only play 45 percent of snaps. It's to be on the field for every single play.

When I come into a camp, a team, I look to be the best player every snap.

Making every snap, every play, every rep count. I think, once you do that, the good things, the stats, they come along with it.

Some people think a series like 'Mayberry' is a snap, but nothing in this world is a snap, unless you want it to be.

Well, every down is important and every snap in the game is important. We try to let our players know that.

I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was probably going before the ball was snapped. It makes it very easy when I only had to read one person and know that I was going from here to here, and if not, I'm checking it down.