Quotes About Focus

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

I'm actually one of the few kids in my grade, especially girls, who didn't end up going to college, just because I already knew what I wanted to do. I had already been actively working in music before I graduated.

I'm a person who, when I set out to write, I write. It's just like when you set out to eat, you eat, or when you set out to sleep, you sleep. I don't do somersaults to write something. I just do it.

If you want to really learn your playbook, you just do it.

I think that people can have their hand in as many different things as they want. You've just got to put your mind to it and just do it.

If you want to make something of yourself, you have to just do it relentlessly.

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

I just kind of go on with what I'm doing.

I actually just keep things very professional. I don't need acceptance from anyone but God, so that's just kind of where I focus it all.

I think in coaching you just expect it to end at some point by being let go or by being fired. It's just kind of the nature of the business, so I've never really focused on that. I'm just trying to focus on doing the job as well as I can.

I don't really engage much in the creative community. I just kind of keep to myself and do my work.

I find that I have to just kind of avoid the Internet as much as possible. And even more so, when I go and look at it, I remember why I should be avoiding it.

I try not to think of myself in any category, and I don't ever really try to imagine myself competing with another actor. I just know I want to do the things that I would want to see, and I know the things that turn me on, whether it's on the stage, or it's a play or a film. I just kind of want to keep doing my own thing.

I just kind of try to go out and focus on what I've got to do to get myself better.

As you get going in the game you just kind of go along and you play the game.

I've always just kind of prided myself on just taking the ball and just trying to give your team a chance to win, and I really don't try to make it any more complicated than that.

Yeah, strikeouts just kind of happen. It's not something I'm trying to do, I'm just trying to get outs as fast as possible.

I think you really have to know what you want if you want to be an artist. Otherwise, you just kind of end up in space, just floating around.

Obviously, I don't want to be too emotional. I just kind of want to use my energy on the court so I can just be able to be effective on both ends of the floor.

I think when you train in just one sport separately, you learn more.

I'm just one of those guys that, when I'm going in, I'm going all-in. That's kind of the way you've got to be in this business that I'm in.

In climbing, if you injure just one finger you can't do it. But with slacklining as long as you can walk, you can walk the line.

I can focus on just one thing - that's basketball.

I make 18 three-footers after every round. It's just something that helps me focus on routine, and helps me hear the ball go in the hole. It's something I do every day.