Quotes About Focus

I love listening to music in general before I compete. It's something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves.

It's tough, but I have to remember that this is my passion and what I love, and that's how I keep the nerves from kicking in.

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

Now that I'm doing all these big competitions, I've learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that's where the maturity comes in.

You have to bury nerves, because they can either destroy you or give you that extra boost. You have to use your nerves in a good way. Don't let them destroy you.

I learned that if you want something, you've got to really go for it, try to put the nerves aside.

Every telecast, I still have butterflies and a little bit of nerves. But I think the nerves help. It elevates my attentiveness.

I am extremely nervous before anything. People who say they aren't nervous are telling a white lie. Nerves get you going, as you are playing for so much at the highest level.

I try not to have nerves. You have to be cold-blooded. You have to think, to look at the goalkeeper: how is he positioned? You study them, you know about them, even if there isn't always time, even if it's sometimes intuition. You look to see where he is.

I like to carry some nerves with me for each fight.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other thought. This is the way to success.

I have always boxed better with a bit of nerves.

I have nerves before every fight - it doesn't matter who I'm fighting - and every fight is your biggest fight, so I've always got to check myself.

If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

I think I'm always nervous, even if I play not on the center court.

It's okay to feel nervous before a competition because it means you care about doing well.

I think it's the nervousness and the worry that it won't last forever that keeps us working so hard.

It doesn't matter how you score, when the ball touches the net it's a goal.

It's just like any job. We're either in the arena or working out during certain hours of the day, but you have other hours for things that you want to do during the day as a human being, and for me, maybe I don't go shopping. Maybe I go into my backyard and throw against a net.

You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

When I play my match, I can't think about anything else except what I'm doing on my side of the net.

The best feeling is when you finish a point at the net.