Quotes About Focus

I've taken thousands of shots in the corner. It's all mental. That's all it comes down to, is to be ready, wait for your opportunity, and execute.

It's a beautiful thing when you come to fight week and you know that you haven't cut any corners.

I try to hit the ball along the ground, especially against fast bowlers. I also like the bat to come down in the right position and check if my body position is correct. If I'm really watching the ball carefully, then automatically I'm in a good position to hit it down the ground.

Now, admittedly, my power of concentration is and always has been extraordinary since my army training! In fact, other people say it is legendary and almost cosmic!

You've got to really check on what you're doing: check and recheck it seven other times to be prepared. Sometimes, people get carried away with the artistic-ness of the endeavor and don't quite have their game face on when the time comes. It's always a pretty costly mistake.

I got to a point I was so focused on getting a title shot all the thought in my head was to go out there and win at all costs, so maybe it made me fight a certain way, maybe take a lot of risks and stuff like that.

I can't just sit all day on the couch and expect the weight to come off. My goals are my new focus instead of food.

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.

I like to work the count, but I know when I have to be aggressive.

I've got to keep my pitch count down. If you want to go deep into ballgames, you have to stay under that 100 mark.

If I'm going to be away from my family then I want to make the practice count more.

Strikeouts are something that just happen. You don't go for strikeouts, because your pitch count gets too high. When you do get that opportunity, you have to put them away with whatever is working that day.

I don't think I've ever spent more than an hour on any one song, but that doesn't count the thinking that goes on beforehand.

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

I'd be counting calories in my head while having conversations and doing crosswords.

I meditate. Just counting my breath. Before I do anything, really.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

To me, every play counts. To me, how I play in individuals, how I play in practice, that's how I'm going to play in the game.

I might get to the barn later, but I stay longer, and that's what counts.

You keep getting calls, but then doing the right project and being sure of what you want to do is what counts.

The only thing that counts is hard work.

To be favourite or not, it's the game that counts.

I used to go into the practice room when I played county. Sometimes I wasn't playing until five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and I was there at 9 A.M. The cleaners were hoovering around me.