Quotes About Focus

I want to focus on football and just go on the pitch to do my thing.

I'm always motivated when I go out on the pitch.

I always try to perform, and not because you have players on the bench or on the pitch that can play in your position.

There are times you need more than talent, and so you have to make sure you give your all and leave everything out there on the pitch.

I've had to make lots of sacrifices, particularly off the pitch.

Scoring goals is nothing new for me. Every time I go out onto that pitch, I just go out there to score goals.

The best players, they're always the last ones off the pitch, always working on this, working on that, and they put that into games.

Every time I step on the pitch, I think about winning and putting on a performance that ensures my team comes out on top.

The battle to win - on the pitch and in the boardroom - begins and ends in one's head.

My job is to focus on the pitch, what happens off it is something for my agent.

Once you get on the pitch you know you've got a job to do.

My business is to perform on the pitch, to put in performances and that is what I want to do.

Never let yourself get fooled by the same pitcher on the same pitch on the same day.

As a catcher, I know the pitcher is trying to get ahead in the count.

I'm like a pitcher. I'm either on or off.

I just try to make the pitcher work.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

You have to go up there, and it's you vs. the pitcher. No one's there to help you. That's how I go about it.

It's easy to sit there in the dugout when the game's going on and talk, chitchat about this and that. But I think paying attention, watching the pitcher, watching the game develop, putting yourself in situations you're not even in yet, anticipating the game, stuff like that, I think that really helps you take that extra step.

What's important is to get into the pitcher's head: to know what he's made of.

As a pitcher, you can't afford to get too ticked off.

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.

I understand what sabermetrics get across, and what they're getting across is to keep it simple. Especially for me, as a pitcher, that's something that helps me - finding ways to keep it simple. Numbers can only tell so much.

If you're a starting pitcher, the ball's in your hands and all eyes are you. And when you're kicking, either you missed it or you made it. So there's a lot of parallels in that.