Quotes About Focus

I don't think it's good to be a distraction to your team.

When I lose a big game, I am angry and always in a bad mood, and I will talk about other stuff to bring attention away from my team also.

I think the mindset is supposed to be not who will play on the court, but can you be prepared yourself, and set your mind that you will be working all the time? You know when you come into a game, you want to help a team and do your thing.

There is only one thing I want to do here, and that is play football to the best of my ability. If I let things start distracting me, I'm not going to be able to do that, which will jeopardise the team as well.

I don't do any sim at home or whatever. If I do, it's with the team, which is a proper preparation for me.

Sometimes in a team game, the entire spotlight is on one man.

My coach... tells me not to focus on a knockout, and to follow the team game plan.

At the start of my career, I had a problem focusing for 90 minutes, but that's the advantage of football: it's a team game.

In this sport if you want to win you need to be selfish, it is that kind of sport, even though it is a team sport you need to think about yourself.

Poker is not a team sport. It's every man for himself. It's perfectly okay to root for your buddies and hope they do well, but when it's time to play the game, you have to give it your all. All by yourself, that is.

I had never played a team sport when I was younger.

I think the biggest thing is just focusing on the day-to-day, your routine, not getting caught up in the future or the past and just being right there and focusing on what you have to do that day or that night to help your team win.

The only pressure I feel is how I can contribute to help my team win the match. Of course, there is always the pressure to score, but then doesn't it eventually help your team win? Frankly, I don't let these things affect me.

I'm going to do my best to help the team play hard and help the team win... I'm just coming to play baseball.

I want to do whatever will make my team win.

There's always going to be a lot of distractions in the NFL - that's just how it is; it's on the biggest stage - but really focusing on what I have to do now to help my team win, help me be at my best physically when I'm out there on the field and mentally, because that will ultimately help my team no matter what role I'm playing.

I've come to a point in my career where it doesn't matter if I dribble or nutmeg someone. The only thing that matters is whether I was decisive, did I put the ball in the back of the net today, and did it help the team win.

All I got to say is I've got to put myself mentally and physically in a position where I can play at a high level and help my team win and that's what I plan on doing.

At the end of the day, all I can focus on is doing what I need to do, as a player, to help the team win.

I don't play for the attention; I work on my skills every day so I can go out and play my role to the fullest to help the team win. That's my No. 1 goal when I step on the court.

I'm up here to help the team win every at-bat, offense, defense, baserunning.

You always want to give yourself an edge, want to help your team win. That's pretty much going to preparation.

I think my mindset is probably the most important thing. Being able to stay positive through whatever injury I had or whatever situation I was going through and focusing on the best player and the best teammate I can be.

I think every time I step on the court, I'm just preparing myself to be the best player I can be, be the best teammate I can be as well.