Quotes About Focus

For some reason, the busier I am at the track, the better I tend to race. I think it's because I don't have to deal with all the distractions outside the car that can get me in trouble at times.

Whatever career you are in, you always have other distractions.

Growing up in Baltimore, there were a lot of distractions. But I was so into boxing, it was like candy to me.

I can't let distractions get in the way.

For the most part, teams don't want distractions.

I think that it's a benefit to have distractions because you don't overconsume yourself with what-ifs and you end up second-guessing yourself.

I feel attention sometimes in games, from fans and other players. But I just try to play the way I always have, remain focused, and don't let distractions get in my way.

In international sport you get distractions all the time, but at the end of the day that shouldn't affect how you deliver a ball or how you hit a ball.

I don't want no distractions on Melo. So therefore I'm going to home-school him and make him the best basketball player ever.

There were a lot of distractions in Baltimore, and I think they were a problem for me.

When you in the studio you don't need everybody calling your phone telling you about what's going on outside the studio. I don't need those distractions.

Let's face it: Most teams don't like distractions.

In Russia it is great because you can concentrate 100 percent on your work, there are not as many distractions as London, so I've literally had a year concentrating on my dancing.

I learned at 50 that there are things that are not my department. Distribution is one of those things.

I'm mature enough to understand I can find time to do other things without disturbing my focus for basketball.

I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.

How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on?

Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

The more I spend at one position, the more I can dive into those details.

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.

I'm a serial monogamist - I tend to dive in.

If there's a loose ball, I'm going to dive and see if I can get it. That's just the way you play.

I think when I dive on the court, I dive not for people. To be honest, I gonna hurt myself for people?... I dive because I want to win the point.

I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration.