Quotes About Focus

I have some really lofty goals that don't even scratch upon the Olympics.

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.

I really wanted to come into the Olympics.

Sometimes thinking about the Olympics makes me a little nervous.

If I had to be in the Olympics, I suppose I would do the javelin throw.

If we're about winning world championships, we can't just have all of our focus be on the Olympics.

At the Olympics, for those eight minutes of each fight, all that attention was on me. Either the crowd is with you or against you.

I had a gold medal in olympics at 12. At 14 or 15 I had my career set before me. Because I started so early, I had this daily training. It developed a focus. It became so natural that it was like a native language for me to play chess. That's why I didn't feel pressure.

I wanted to do whatever I can for Olympics. I just want to give my best shot.

Before going to the L.A. Olympics, I had participated in only two competitions in 400m hurdles. Yet I came close to a medal. So if your mind is strong, you can achieve anything.

We wanted to be World Champions before going to the Olympics.

Athletics needs more focus because it is the heart and soul of any Olympics.

I don't think there's any less on the line in the Olympics than there is any other time.

I got to be calm, but I mean, it's the Olympics. Anybody wants to go out and do their best, so it's definitely a different kind of pressure.

I first decided that I could make a career of MMA after I decided to take it seriously and not act like a teenager in some band, but fully commit myself like a professional. Roughly, when I decided to up and move in the middle of the night from Omaha, Neb. to Denver, Colo. for proper training.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

I've given everything I can possible to the game, on and off the field.

It's very important for me to focus on myself, on the job I have to do on and off the track with the engineers without really thinking about what people expect of me off the track.

I just want to keep my head down and do the right things on and off the pitch.

You have to approach every day and try and get better on and off the field.

You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.'

I've been working in radio on and off for most of my career. There's a restfulness about it. It's more focused on the voice, so you don't have to worry about extraneous things like sound effects, as there's someone there to look after that.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

I was never, ever once angry in the ring.