Quotes About Focus

I don't make any plans. When I finish one job, I make the most of some time off, then get back on it again.

If I am not able to execute my plans, then I feel I am not up to the mark and there has been a mistake on my part. Then I try to keep a cool head and try to do it all over again.

I never, ever deviate from my plans.

No sense making plans to get a job or finish school at Johns Hopkins, which I just wasn't getting anything out of. Life was waiting to go back on 'Jeopardy!'

Don't get me wrong - I love going to academy every day and training as hard as I can; I love to learn. But I have other plans. When you are in the UFC, you gotta save 80 percent of your time for that. I want to do other nice stuff, other things that give me pleasure also.

I have so many plans inside and outside the Octagon.

I am an old fashioned guy. I want to first stand on my two feet and then start thinking about settling down. At the moment no marriage plans.

I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work.

I'm always just focused on being great where I'm at and blooming where I'm planted.

I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

When I went to home plate in a game-tied situation or with a chance to do something and help the ballclub win one, I'd try to make eye contact with the pitcher.

I've always got loads on my plate, so I should concentrate on fewer things. I take multitasking to a ridiculous degree.

It doesn't matter to me whether it's the 12th or the 90th minute, I'll go for the ball the same way as I go for a plate of food.

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.

I trust how much my ball moves. I can throw it at you or this far off the plate and have it end up on the black. That's where I kind of went to the next level. I knew what all my pitches were doing. Even in '14, I didn't have that ability.

When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher is trying to do with the ball.

Nobody is going to tell me that I can't do three games in a week. No one is going to tell me that I can't do it well. I'm going to work really hard at it. I get bored if I don't have 10,000 things on my plate.

Our hitting coaches have done a great job of understanding when I don't look right at the plate and getting me back on track.

Every meal is a conscious effort to stay disciplined and understand what's on your plate.

If I can execute pitches and keep the ball out of the middle of the plate, I know I can have success.

Altuve is just so good at that. He can decide halfway to the plate where he's going to place the ball. I've never seen that kind of talent before in my life, and I don't know if I'll ever see it again.

Well here's how I look at it, I've always been someone that's liked to have things on my plate, it just keeps me going.