Quotes About Focus

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

When preparing for auditions, I have no rituals. I just try to be as prepared as possible.

I'm just going to keep preparing for the best.

If I'm not playing football, I'm preparing to play football. That's kind of how I kind of view my life.

If you have a dream, never stop preparing for that.

I feel like I've been preparing for 'First Take' my entire life.

I don't think about my losses. I only think about winning my next fight and preparing for my next fight.

I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.

I don't have a set way of preparing for something. You just have to take it seriously.

If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.

When my entire focus is on training and just preparing... I just do 100-percent that and nothing else.

Music is a huge part of my life when I am on the road, working out, or preparing for a game. It is something I always go back to, and it is something that motivates me. It gets me hype before a game.

Once you have an opponent in your mind that you're preparing for, you're working on specifics, and you get guys in to mimic what they do.

I think preparing every week like it's the most important game in the world makes things a little easier once you get in situations where a lot more people are watching and it might be a lot more important for people outside of the building.

Standing at the end of your run with the ball in your hand preparing to bowl the first ball of an Ashes series is an amazing feeling.

We're not preparing to lose games.

I spent about a total of one year preparing for the 'Want' album.

When you're preparing for a game, you prepare like you're starting. But if you're not, if you're coming off the bench, everybody has a role.

You are responsible for your own career, if you ain't preparing right, you are not going to get picked.

I am preparing myself as every offseason, getting myself ready to close. Starting hasn't even crossed my mind and I'm not going to do it either.

I do not miss the hours you have to spend preparing for the upcoming season in July, in March, April. I do not miss half my day being in the gym... to get ready to play.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.