Quotes About Focus

When I'm not focused, I'm quite possibly one of the more clumsy people on the planet. I'll walk into doorways and coffee tables.

When there are four or five tables going on it is hard to keep your concentration.

We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.

Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. We also read more carefully than on tablets or laptops.

I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus.

Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.

I feel like I'm just going to go full speed and tackle. If that means there is friendly fire on my guy, then that's what I gotta do. I try not to do that because I know I'll lay a big hit on them, but if that's what I gotta do, that's what I'll do just to make sure that tackle gets made.

Putting on makeup before work is a meditative exercise. It incites me to think about how I'll tackle my day.

You do not have time in international rugby to stop and think, 'This is tough.' It's more a case of, 'Let's crack on.' Where's your next job? Fill a hole for someone who has just made a tackle?

I can't be lackadaisical when it's time for me to make any play, whether it's a tackle, fumble recovery, anything that it might be.

Especially in the secondary, a lot of your tackles are usually going to be in the open field, one-on-one tackles, so you can't be out there thinking about making a pretty tackle or having the ground ooh and ahh.

I don't know technique-wise, just I've always tackled the same. I've never even really thought about how I tackle or any of that.

In football, 80% of the game is played in your head; the other 20% is physical and tactical.

At Chelsea, there's more focus on team shape, a lot of work on tactics.

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.

In my opinion, it's better to be alone out there, having to decide on your tactics during the matches. I would prefer it if it was just me and my opponent having to solve the problems out there on the court.

It's the tactics, the little things I like to focus on and get better at.

There are days when you have tag matches, but you need to prepare for your next singles match on that same day.

I don't see myself going into the tag team division.

Every play I'm competing my tail off to try to win the route, win the block or whatever my job is on that play.

My job is to be able to perform for three hours or three and a half hours every Sunday and I've got to work my tail off to get to the point where I can do it, and that's what motivates me.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

If you don't take an opponent serious, they surprise you.