Quotes About Focus

When I am out there I pay no attention to the crowd and just move on with playing the game.

You give a hundred percent of yourself to a film and then move on.

When you get moved around, it can be jarring, but it helps to fine-tune your focus in the middle of the season, when other guys are getting a little lackadaisical.

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.

I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

Breathe through your movements.

All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.

During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.

The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.

I'm the type of guy who gets on the end of things. I need to work on my heading and sometimes my concentration is poor but you need someone to finish off moves.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

Wherever I go, I have a basketball with me. I used to dribble a basketball down the street to the movie theater, to the mall.

What I love about movies is, no matter how many people are involved or how complicated the process is, at the end of the day, it's just what's inside of that frame. It's going to be people sitting in a movie theater watching one shot at a time. And that's my focus.

I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.

You want to be busy and try and get the scoreboard moving, and showing that intent when you go out there is important.

Sometimes checking that ball down is the simple decision. It's about moving the chains. It's about a completion here and a completion there. And that's how you know the game really slows down is when you're able to do that, when it's just second nature.

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

You have to be even better as a coach than as a player in dropping what happened, good or bad, and moving on to the next one, because there is always a new matchup to prepare for.

You need to have a short-term memory. That's a big thing that I learned a lot. Moving on from games, even good games that I have. Move on from them and be prepared for the next night.

Once the director calls for action, we act; we stop when he says 'Cut.' It is sort of like meditation - unknowingly, you are moving out of yourself, becoming someone else. That is why I consider acting a form of meditation.

Athletics is not so much about the legs. It's about the heart and mind.

People with momentum can get so much done. Momentum is easy to lose and almost impossible to fake.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.