Quotes About Focus

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Keep your body sharp to keep your mind sharp.

You should never get set over the ball and then aim your putter face. If you do it in that order, you can easily lose sight of your intended line. Instead, aim the face down your line first, then settle your body into position.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

As an athlete and as a woman, I get my confidence from playing sports because it shifts your focus from what your body looks like to what your body can do for you. That's what we all should be doing. It shouldn't be about looking perfect.

When you think you're showing effort, and your body language is showing that, then you're really playing your best, and then nobody will be able to talk bad about your game.

The mentality is nonstop, to work for what you want, your mind keeping your body in the best shape possible.

You are hungry all the time for the last two months before a competition. Every survival thing on your body is telling you that you must eat.

The older you get, the more you start to understand your body, so I try to just focus on my body every summer.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

In my opinion, the power of the mind in sport is vital. If you can overpower those physical risks mentally, you can get your body round it physically. I've made my body do things because of my mind that it shouldn't have been able to do.

As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.

When you're doing any event on an elite level, you're in tune with your body.

There are times when your mind isn't ready to go but your body is, and times when your body is ready to go but your mind isn't. You try to get the two in sync as much as possible.

If you're free of mechanical thoughts and free of knowing that your body and bat are going to be in the right position at the right time, you can freely focus on the ball. It's a great feeling.

It's really intense in our rehearsals; you have to get ready and condition your body.

When you're acting on camera, you don't really think of your voice. You think of the whole instrument - your body, your look, and whatever you have to do. But when you're doing the voiceover, you're thinking only of your voice. You really can't compare the two different mediums.

You have to train your mind just as much as you train your body.

I think that we get so distracted with our smartphones... It takes your body and your brain time to switch between tasks. If we can focus on what we're doing, we'll be more productive at that task.

Being involved in sports, you think less about how your body looks and more how it performs.

To be the best, you need to be the most well-trained and well-prepared athlete you can be. The pressure is going to be all around you. You just have to make sure that your body and mind is fine-tuned. Then you go out there and do it.

Completely, in the end, being at a club like FC Barcelona who must win titles, you have to stay motivated, and often times, using your head is more important than using your body.

A calming place, where you can go to escape it all and just focus on your body, is so wonderful to have.