Quotes About Focus

I have always done everything to defend my goal.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

I'm a good defender, so I like to play defense.

To play the game at this level, I've got to continue to get better. I've got to stay consistent, still work on my ballhandling and I've got to become a great defender.

In football, when I break the line of scrimmage, I see a player in front of me, a defender, and already in my head I'm thinking, 'I'm going to make him miss.' So I'm already looking at the next defender like, 'OK, how can I set this guy up to get him out of position, too?'

I've always played left-back and I'm an established defender so that is the focus for me in games.

I'm not too complicated. I don't think I'm great on the eye. I work hard. I try to outwork defenders, and that's it.

Defending is definitely an art.

Defending is easy. You just have to want to defend. It's not like defending is hard. It's just, like, more of an attitude.

When I look at my career, I was really about defending.

Defending is mostly about focus.

The multi-captaincy system helps me to concentrate and focus on my responsibility. In my case, I can concentrate on my goalkeeping, and others on their responsibilities allotted to them like scoring goals, defending and things like that.

I don't really focus on the guy that's defending me.

Consistency is what you want, especially from a defense on the road.

Defense doesn't matter enough.

You have to play defense, that's how you win.

Defense is gonna help me in particular and help my team, so that's what I've really focused on.

Defense was one thing I was really able to work at and get better.

I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.

I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.

Playing defense hard gets me going offensively.

I don't really worry about what the defense is trying to scheme to do against me. It really doesn't matter.

You don't have to think, you just have to play hard on defense.

You want to be Defensive Player of the Year.