Quotes About Focus

I don't have the attention span for sports.

I have a very short attention span.

I have a short attention span.

I have kind of a short attention span, so if it doesn't come really quick then I set it down, and hopefully come back to it another time.

I've never wanted to do just one thing. I don't have an attention span for that. I can focus really well on one thing - what's in front of me.

My attention span was not great.

I can't put this down. I'm reading it in Spanish but I am still having English lessons. It is a motivational book about basketball legend Michael Jordan. His determination was inspiring. It helps me focus and drives me on.

You can't win any games in the Spanish league by giving only seventy or eighty per cent. You always have to step on the gas.

You don't have any days to spare if you want to improve!

I don't have time to spare for a daily soap; it needs commitment.

As a footballer, there is so much spare time.

I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.

I don't want to be knocked out. But the contact and the focus and the energy I get from sparring gives me energy to make movies, energy to be a dad, energy to be a friend, and, you know, makes me feel, probably, a lot younger and behave a lot younger than I am.

Even after you win the championship, the work doesn't stop; it probably only becomes more. I'm just basically focused on what I need to do. There's a lot that goes into this - diet, preparation, assembling the right people around you, sparring partners, coaches, etc. - so I'm not enjoying anything.

You can't cut no days, you can't cut no corners, because you will feel it in the gym, you'll feel it in the sparring.

I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.

At Grudge, we just push each other. Whether it's sparring five rounds or rolling and doing drills, I do most of my cardio at practice. As far as running outside or riding a bike? That's not fighting, so I only do things that are going to help me in the Octagon.

Robert Easter Jr. is a tough fighter who I have to take very seriously and I do, and that's why we did a nine-week training camp and got the great sparring, got the right training, the right diet, everything.

When I get into the Octagon I look at it as another sparring session kind of.

What people have to realise is that it's not the fights that are really hard; it is the training camps. It's living away from home for 12 weeks. It's sparring with guys who are told they will get £1,000 cash if they can drop me.

I bring in the hardest sparring partners you can imagine and I'm going through the guys.

I think the important thing is to lock into what you have to do each and every day, put everything you have into it, and then you let the results speak for themselves.

I'm quite discreet. I think I'd rather focus on my work. So, I only speak when I have something to say. 'Live hidden, and live happy.' Is that the same in English as it is in French?