Quotes About Focus

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important - honoring God.

I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.

You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.

A typical week of training leading up to a major championship is like the sprinkling of parsley at the end of a dish. It's just the final little touches, that last little bit of strength or fitness, but mostly you are ready and are just maintaining and staying healthy.

If we're going to run for points we need to run in the top-five every week.

I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.

I just try to go about my business, love the game, prepare every week and play football.

I train all week just to play for 90 minutes. I love playing games, and so during those 90 minutes, it's always 100 per cent.

It seems there always something coming up for me during Masters week, but that's not an excuse to play good or bad golf.

I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not.

I cannot shoot for 40-50 hours a week.

So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's happening next week or tomorrow or anything. You're literally thinking about the turn you're setting up and there's something about that I find very cathartic and meditative.

Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.

My mom always tells me, 'You need to take a week for yourself and just chill,' but I don't, man. If you want to be successful, I don't think you should take a day off.

The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.

I'm still in the gym every day for training, putting in the same hard work every week. That's the only way I know how to do it.

We usually think of improving our life by adding stuff - like more things, more success, more friends. I think the starting place should be removing stuff - try a month without Instagram; try a week without looking at fashion pictures. See how that affects your life, your friendships, and your ability to focus on other things.

Definitely stick with a program for more than a week or too. You've got to ride the program out - a lot of people like to hop around on things, but to get a real good base you've got to stick to a good strength program.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.