Quotes About Focus

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

I'm always looking ahead, not backwards.

I never work backwards.

If you are out there golfing, and you hit a bad shot, anyone who knows golf will tell you that you just have to forget about it. If you don't, you'll hit another bad one and another and then another. It plays with your head. It's the same way in a fight.

Everyone focuses in football now on the managers a bit more than the players. I think that's a bad thing.

Sometimes you cannot do anything because the guy in front of you is playing well and he's doing the right things to make you play in a bad way.

I am a professional and when I go out there with the badge on, that's all I'm thinking about. Everything else is in the past. Tottenham is what it is for me now.

Guys are so good. It's just about how badly you want it. I want it real bad.

It's taken me a long time to learn how to not try to win. I've been trying to win too badly. I feel like I've underachieved.

You can't be the best player if suddenly you play well and the next day you play badly.

When you win and you shoot badly, it doesn't really matter. Stats and all the other stuff doesn't matter.

I've started baking. Having my hands deep in dough keeps them away from my phone.

I think at the end of the day you have to find a balance with what's really important.

I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.

It will always be the ball and me.

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball.

You have to win on the ball.

When you have the ball, you don't have a problem.

I feel that every time I get the ball at the moment I am going to score.

When I play ball, I play hardball.

I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.

Don't hold on to the barre like, 'I might die.' It's just ballet.

When you're really serious about ballet, it's a job - even if you're 15 years old. You're doing it six to eight hours a day.

A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.