Quotes About Focus

I have always tried to improve myself in every practice session. When it comes to playing and preparation, I am as disciplined and dedicated as anyone else.

In football, you only work for the things you can control. You cannot control the outside world: you can only control your preparation; you can only control your performances.

Whether I play or not, nothing will change my preparation.

You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.

When you are not scoring runs for the last two-three games, then you need to get that form back; preparation is the best thing to do.

My preparation and my routine are the foundations to my success.

Getting in the cage, it's not like I need a whole mental preparation for it. It's just a fight.

I focus about me, about my camp, about my preparation, to not get injured. I focus about me.

Everything in your preparation, in your mind is we're gonna win this game. You don't really even think of the other side.

I believe your best preparation is to just get your rest and just go out there and continue to do what you've been doing, not to try to do anything uncharacteristic that you haven't been doing. That's my main thing.

The only thing I can control is my preparation and how I play games and how I practice.

Most people don't understand the mental preparation that's also involved in wrestling.

I believe you have to learn how to win. And that just doesn't come from going out on the basketball court and playing. That comes from hours and hours of preparation, preparation before that game, preparation for the other team you are playing, mental preparation.

Preparation is very important for me.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well.

I prepare for every role. I come into class with my homework under my arm.

I don't think I do that much to prepare for roles in general.

You have an obligation as a player - as an athlete at any level - and it doesn't matter what sport it is. When you sign on, you sign on. You prepare that week to go win. I don't care about your schedule, or how many people got hurt - it doesn't matter. You owe it to the people in the building and guys in the huddle to prepare yourself to win.

When I prepare for a match, it's like work, even the way I have to shower and put on my makeup.

I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.

I prepare the same for every opponent.

I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.

I've played in a few Champions League matches and got into quarter-finals - sometimes unluckily knocked out - but you have to prepare like any other football match: you have to play the game, not the occasion. That's been instilled in me since I was a kid.