Quotes About Focus

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

Of course, fighting's first. That's what I do; that's what pays my bills, you know.

On a film set, where there is so much chaos, I find inner peace.

When there's a death consequence, when you are doing things that if you mess up you die, I like the way it causes my senses to peak. I can see more clearly. You can think much faster. You hear at a different level.

I've always been interested in peak performance, why some people do better in life than others.

What we get paid to do is peak at the world championships and Olympics.

It gets a little tough when you're cutting weight to travel all over the place, when you want to focus on really getting yourself ready to peak for your fight.

Right now, I'm just focused on the 8,000-meter peaks. I don't know what's next. I don't think I will get tired of climbing.

Usually, about 2 hours before a game, I stuff in a nice peanut butter and jelly with chocolate milk.

You can never take your foot off the gas pedal. You have to play the right way at both ends.

You can't take your foot off the pedal; you've got to get pucks to the next level.

I don't put Jardine on a pedestal or worry about any kind of step-up. He's just another fighter standing in the way of me achieving my goal.

Lucian Bute had the world title for five years, he made nine defenses and he's a good, good fighter. The fight before that, I beat Andre Dirrell, who comes from a good pedigree and is a hell of a southpaw. It just shows you the kind of fighter I am when I focus and do my job.

Trust your instinct. And if you can't tell what your instinct is telling you, learn how to peel back the noise in your life that is keeping you from hearing it.

I'm no less focused than any of my peers. They live a different life. They go home; they are not pictured at events. I train just as much as them, maybe more.

Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

You should almost always draw in pen. It forces you to be confident. You can never erase, so it makes you really focus on your line and not wimp out.

Penalties are part of the game, you know. You need to score. You have the chance but you need to score.

I don't worry about the thought of the game going to penalties - it doesn't matter!

A lot of times losing a game is not taking care of the football, foolish penalties.

The video ref should focus on the key things, situations ahead of goals, penalties and red cards.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

I'm not thinking about records. Just winning the pennant would be exciting.