Quotes About Focus

Practice is tough. We try to purposely make it difficult on our players on whatever it is that we're trying to do during the week to get ready for that opponent so that we see the most difficult looks, so that we make our players aware of the things that could certainly impact the game in a negative fashion.

The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don't have so much in the way between me and my opponent.

I don't focus much on video. I watch here and there, perhaps two or three of my opponent's fights. That gives me a good idea of his style.

Even when my opponent hits a very good shot, I don't just want to get it back. I want to get it back so they have difficulty. And then I can control the point.

The opponent never matters to me. That's something I've always said.

It's never been about an opponent. I don't care who it is. Just throw them in front of me and let me do what I have to do. Let me earn the belt.

Every time I step on the court, I know I can beat my opponent.

I'm not going to go out there and have these slugfests, but I'll go out there and dominate my opponent. That's what I do in my fight.

I know how good I am, and I know where I can go if I'm in the right mindset and respecting my opponent.

I always go there to put on a fight knowing that my opponent is well prepared and will do his best. That's the challenge that motivates me.

Once I get an opponent, I'm locked into him.

When you're little, you're taught not to look at, like, if your opponent gets angry or anything.

I never really have a game plan other than to finish my opponent as quickly as possible.

I can honestly say that every time I go on court, I see the opponent in a competitive way, but not a rival.

People who are great at what they do, they do it the same way no matter who the opponent is.

In politics, your opponent can be far more important than your vision.

That's usually the way I am - I don't care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.

You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

In mixed martial arts, if you get kicked in the face, it's your job not to show any expression to your opponent.

In a tiebreaker, you generally have a lot of adrenaline running through. It's all about just holding your serve, trying to hold two serves at a time, trying to stay ahead in the tiebreaker, constantly put pressure on my opponent.

Where the opponent is in the rankings means nothing.

You've got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.

You don't want your opponent to score. You don't want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.

Male, female, it doesn't matter. All I see when I look across the ring is an opponent.