Quotes About Focus

From a personal standpoint, my ability to play all around the wicket is more mindset than anything else.

The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients.

From a cognitive standpoint, I'm very aware that you have no room for error in a picture book. Every word counts.

I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.

I was so engrossed in my sport, I wasn't thinking about the future from God's standpoint. I was thinking about just my sporting future.

When I talk about football from a studio standpoint, I try to cut through the minutia and get to the point.

I'm used to structure, and the relationship I have with my mom, from a military standpoint, is all about structure. There's a certain way of doing things. My mom knows how to focus on different situations. What I learned from her helps me out every night I play.

When you're present, be present the best you can. Like I said, we all fail. But I think from a dad standpoint, children want our time. Sometimes it might just be five minutes, and sometimes it can be a lot more, but I think they want our time and to be engaged with them and present.

From a mental standpoint, you can't play this game unless you mentally are clocked in and that's, 'I'm willing to do everything to my body, my mind to put myself so that I can win.'

As a keeper, you have more time, and you do hear more from the stands.

It doesn't matter who stands in front of me, I've got to find a way to go out there and win.

The dot stands for 'detail' - always be paying attention to detail. I feel that people take you as serious as you take yourself. I spent a lot of time working on my craft, developing my style, and after I came out of my little incubation, I promised that I would pay attention to detail.

'ACE' is one of the acronyms I've used over the years. It stands for 'Acting cures everything.' You weren't promised to come to the ballpark and feel great on your start day. Basically, how can you put something on display to the opponent that gives the appearance of 'OK, this guy is locked in today,' whether you are or not?

MIA stands for 'missing in action,' which is the way others can experience you when you're too busy multi-tasking, being pulled at by the world and by everything that's going on in your head, and, essentially, when you're too busy being busy.

I am no longer 20 or 21 years old, so I cannot afford to sit around waiting for my chance. I am 29 years old, and I want to play, play, and play. I am not crazy; I don't want to sit in the stands.

In a game, I'm locked in. I maybe notice three rows in the stands the arena over, and that's it.

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

Work hard. Hard work is the best investment a man can make.

While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors.