Quotes About Focus

Mentally, it's good for me to fight in Japan.

It's not enough just to be talented, or to work hard, or to be mentally strong. You have to combine absolutely everything. You have to live football, completely.

If I stay mentally right during a game, then I feel like I can be up there with the best.

You can't play this game without being fit, and without being mentally fit and ready.

We're so trained to be 'mentally tough,' in sports.

You have to play with the mentality that you are about to lose your job, and that they're going to talk about 'The Other Guy' first. You have to think, 'I want my name mentioned first.'

Obviously, I'm honoured to be mentioned as a candidate to win the Ballon d'Or, but the only way I can influence it is to just focus on playing well.

I only did four days on 'Just Mercy' at the same time I'm playing a cowboy in another movie.

I try to play each ball on its merit.

When you're out on the touchline, like a winger, it is easier to play. You see everything: the mess, the crowd, the activity is all inside. When you play inside, you don't see anything in there because so much is happening in such a small space and all around you.

You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.

If I dabble in too many things and don't focus on channelizing my energy into one thing, I might mess it up.

You need to stay hungry and not allow someone like John Ruiz to come over and mess you up in front of all your fans.

You get into the game and you know you're probably not going to be in there long. It's like, while I'm in here, I better not mess up. That's the completely wrong mentality to have. That works against how I play because how I play is 150 percent, going all out, going crazy.

When you get to a point of stop trying to not mess up and just playing basketball, you've got that base of comfortability.

If you mess around, and you don't take every game as seriously as possible, there's going to be a time you get to the Finals and say look, 'We're not sharp right now.' At that point, there's nothing you can do.

I can go off-point, I can go off-word, I can go off-paragraph, but I can never go off message.

I messed around with the guitar from the age of about eight, but when I hit 13, it was the only thing I wanted from life.

I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.

Sometimes the hardest shot is when people are giving you space to shoot, because it messes with your head.

I guess there are worse things than being compared to Messi but I don't look at what he is doing. I just try to give my best for my team.

If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.