Quotes About Focus

I ensure I am focused throughout the game, whether that is making a chance for myself or receiving the ball from a teammate to score.

It's nothing, really, for me to be able to say it's overwhelming or anything. It's just - you do the interviews, you interact with everybody, and you make sure that, at the end of the day, you focus on why you're here, and that's to play football and make sure I can contribute as a teammate.

My main focus was to be a great teammate. That's all I hoped to accomplish. I don't really care about legacies.

I take an approach of focusing on characteristics and qualities that I want to be as a teammate and the numbers will take care of themselves.

I'm going to play for me and not play for anyone else except my teammates and the guys that matter.

On the Sabbath, I'm supposed to focus on Jesus and the resurrection. But if I don't practice, I let the team down. I don't want my teammates to think that I think I'm special.

A big thing for me is trying to work on slowing down and not rushing plays, so I can be able to make plays for my teammates.

I know what my teammates think about me, I know what my coaches think about me. I don't concern myself with what anyone thinks outside of that.

I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.

Every time I step out on that field, I'm 100 percent. My teammates know that. They know what I'm out there dealing with. I know what I'm out there dealing with. But when it comes to my mindset, I'm 100 percent.

At any level I'm not built with complacency. I think you see that in the way I play. The people that manage me know that, my teammates know that. I'm not built like that.

My teammates, they keep you focused.

Look, the only way for me to enjoy the game is to be consumed by it, to compete at a level where I know, at the end of that game, that my teammates and I did our absolute best.

I'm someone who always comes on the court no matter what's going on in my life. It's all about basketball and my teammates and my team. I don't let any distractions in, and I bring my best every night, regardless of what's going on or what people are talking about.

When I'm out there on the mound, I'm fighting for my teammates, fighting for the ability to stay in the game for a long time. It's war. I see the hitter - I think about what I want to do, but it's a very quick process. Then I attack. It's almost primal.

I wake up every day like, 'How can I get better, how can I help my teammates be successful? I try to control what I can control and worry about us, nothing else.

You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.

I can control how hard I play. This is how I respond to coaching. This is how I respond to my teammates. If I focus on that, the other things that come with that are going to come.

I'm just trying to live in the moment and do the best I can for myself and for my teammates, and that's all I can really focus on.

I don't pay attention to what people think. I don't really care what people think. All that matters is my teammates and my coaches.

If I'm not on the court, I have to be there to cheer my teammates on and from the sideline be there mentally and keep guys locked in and focused.

I know what I'm about. My teammates know, my family knows, everything else, I can't worry about.

First I was still excited and elated about winning the Rhodes scholarship. That was an amazing feat. But then I put my iPod on and started listening to my pre-game music and started to switch my mind to football and was just hoping that the jet would land as quickly as possible so that I could get on the field and help my teammates win the game.

I just focus on what I can do myself, which is work hard and try to compete with the teammates I have.