Quotes About Focus

Scoring goals is scoring goals. From a striker's point of view, the aim is the same.

When I go out onto the pitch, I don't do so thinking about objectives or the need to win. I think about enjoying it, but from a point of view of responsibility and of giving your all.

Because I'm a dramatist, I'm allowed to take liberties, but I want my films to be based in truth, and it's very important to me that the community we're focusing on is happy with the film. From an ethical point of view, that's everything.

Snooker has been really, really tough for me from a personal point of view because to be at the top and to stay at the top you've got to put the hours in.

I thought I was an actor until they pointed the camera at me.

I could have become a distraction, pointed fingers, complained, or I could have just worked hard and been prepared, knowing I'm one play from getting in. And that's the road I've taken.

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

I don't really look at stats or whatever. You see them on the big screen. But other than that, I don't pay too much attention to it. I did know about my dad's home run total. Other than that, I don't like to know. It's pointless. Whether you know or don't know, you don't want to think about it. You just want to go out and play the game.

There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.

No one can remember more than three points.

Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.

But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better.

Once you are on court, it doesn't matter the way you look. It doesn't help you win points.

The one-handed backhand helps you to be more aggressive in the points.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

When you are 10 points behind, you have to be focused just on the next game.

There's no room for being disappointed or for excuses, 'Oh, I had four match points.'

Before I step on a starting block, I will clap three times and shake out my arms twice. I don't feel ready to race unless I do that.

Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.

I like people who have clarity about their work.

I like clarity in what I do.

I own 170 and 155. These are my weight classes.

When other students would study after classes, I would go out again to work out and then study in the night.

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.