Quotes About Focus

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.

I can't imagine what I would be doing if I wasn't swimming. It is what I want to do now; it is what I want to do in the foreseeable future, and that is what I'm focusing on.

I was always a very competitive little kid. I did swimming very competitively, downhill skiing very competitively. Everything was competition.

There is no better training for chess than swimming. On a Friday evening I like to put in a good long session of breaststroke at the pool near where I live in Budapest with my husband, Gusztav, and my two children.

I did javelin, swimming, long distance running. But the reason I did these other sports was because of boxing. I didn't want to get sidetracked.

Swimming, it's the best job.

I really live for the racing, the moments in those races where everything slows down even though you're swimming as fast as possible.

I've got to go out there and do a job and focus on swimming and do my own thing, and I think us athletes can go out there and perform no matter what... This is what we train to do.

I was really keen on horse-riding, too, but I knew I had to give it up to give more time to swimming.

Maybe it's part of being an athlete, but I feel like we're really good, especially in swimming, about just pushing things down and pushing ahead.

I don't think too much about mechanics. I just like to go up there and swing. It's more than my swing, though. It's my mindset. I always go to home plate with a plan.

Swing at strikes. You've got to swing at strikes.

Sometimes I chase, but I'd rather swing at a close pitch than take it for strike three.

I try to keep it real simple. I try not to add a lot of frosting on what I'm doing. Just take the swing and don't muscle the swing, because if you get in the hitting position and you take the swing, I generate a lot more bat speed, and that works for me.

I could bowl really fast and as the years went on I started to develop more skills - I learnt how to swing the ball a little bit, use the crease a little bit more. But I knew what my skill was and that was to run in and bowl fast.

When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

If I have got a swing, I have got a shot.

I'm the kind of a player who, if you give me something good to hit, I'm going to swing at it. Otherwise, there's nothing else you can do.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.