Quotes About Focus

Meditation can be like a battle with yourself, your thoughts, your body.

I think the thing that I think about the most when I consider my father's philosophies is attaining that third stage of performance where you no longer have to think about what you're doing; you've worked long and hard enough to be able to have your body respond when you want it without your mind getting in the way.

The most important thing in any contest is finding your rhythm and making your body work for you.

I told somebody once, 'You don't want the Herschel that plays football... babysitting your child. When I am competing, I am a totally different person.'

When your child is sick, you have tunnel vision.

Spend enough time wrangling a toddler, and you get good at being kind but firm. Like your child, you must be doggedly single-minded when it matters.

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next year or even next week. You put aside thoughts about which preschool you're going to enroll him in and focus on how he's doing right now. It's not the Norman Rockwell relationship that you sign on for when becoming a parent.

It changes everything, absolutely everything. The love you feel for your child transforms everything. Now you have someone helpless and tiny that depends on you and only you. You look at him and know that your world is focused on him, on that part of you.

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream... Hang in there.

Whatever you want to follow as your passion, it's about having the right mental attitude, having the right focus, following your dream and never wavering from it.

You have to make every day count toward your dream.

If you're having fun, and it's your dream, stick with it. If you can't hang in there, go find something else to do.

You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.

Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I'm sure you've had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don't want to do is focus upon them.

Cut the things out of your life that keep you from reaching your dream. It doesn't matter if it's cooking or belly dancing.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

You have to work on your dreams every day, and that's what I am doing.

When you focus on your dreams, great things happen.

There are a lot of hours and a lot of sacrifices you have to make to achieve your dreams as a tennis player.

It doesn't matter how you look. As long as you train hard, you focus and you're hungry, and that drive is in you to follow your dreams, everything is possible.

You go after your dreams no matter how many obstacles. You want to go forward. That's what I did.

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.