Quotes About Focus

Cricket kept me away from trouble.

You just need to go into matches with a clear plan in T20 cricket. If you go half-half, it's going to be really hard to come back.

The more cricket you play in your head, the less you perform on the field. So let cricket, the sport, be on the field.

Cricket is 24/7 for me.

In the cricket world, with a lot of little issues that people are getting in a tizz around, I'm just like: Don't worry about it.

I've played cricket seriously since I was eight years old, when I first played for the Essex under-11s. I can't just turn it off.

Test match cricket is about individual brilliance.

From nine, I started playing cricket. From 11, I knew this is what I'm doing.

It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific.

Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

Let's stop talking about crisis. Let's work instead.

I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.

I'm not a critic, and I never talk about other people's work.

If people criticise, you have to keep working.

I can deal with the media; I can deal with some of the criticism I get and still focus on what I need to do.

After every game I analyse my performance with the goalkeeping coach in a very critical manner. There is certain criticism you will take on board and other things that do not affect you. You cannot look too far into that because it can destruct you in a certain way.

I don't really think about the critics or the commercial success.

There are a million logical reasons to not make a film, and I think if you get focused on all the critics or money or any of that other stuff, it never leads anywhere good.

It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it.

When you cross the whitewash, you only think about the present.

After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

Of course, not everyone's going to get on but when you crossed that white line it didn't matter. For those 90 minutes it didn't matter what else was going on, we'd do anything to win.

I don't really think about the crowd when I am in the middle. I actually forget about the crowd, forget the money; that's exactly what I always do.

Some guys lock up when they hear the crowd. I feel the energy and take it with me into the fight. I've been in front of huge crowds and know to use that energy.