Quotes About Focus

If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.

You can do so much in ten minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.

I told myself there was no way I was going to let this training go to waste. It was my time, and I was ready to go.

Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.

No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Run hard, be strong, think big!

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it.

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.