Quotes About Focus

If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.

Always try the problem that matters most to you.

Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and a half of nonsense.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

I never think about losing.

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.