Quotes About Focus

When you are playing teams of this quality, you might get one or two good chances in 90 minutes; that is why it is so important that we take them.

When great teams meet, there is never a problem with concentration.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

I'm a player that usually focus on my team, try to give the best for my team-mates, and I don't look much at what the other teams do.

Obviously during practice there's a competitive nature if you're on opposite teams.

There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.

Instead of being on teams at school, I was preparing for auditions.

What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.

The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.

Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.

I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.

From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.

I've given it all from my combine to my pro day to my meetings with teams.

If I had to identify the one skill set shared by most by the men who become part of the SEAL teams... it would be sheer brainpower.

If we sit here and think about what other teams are doing and the points game and all that, we're going to go crazy, and it's not going to help our game.

When you look at Jerry Sloan teams, they're all very disciplined. They execute well. They play within themselves.

It's always tough to play against teams that bunker or 'park the bus' inside the 18-yard box, but we always try to focus on our game and how we can overcome the obstacles that the game presents to continue to get better and score goals.

If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

Don't matter if I am playing on special teams, don't matter if I am playing linebacker: I want to be the best at what I am doing.

When things are right and things are focused, it's a game to me, and I'm there just stalking and punching and grabbing and tearing people up.

I've dominated past competitions, but I've sweated blood and tears for every medal. I take nothing for granted, and I'm fully focused on doing my best.

I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn't have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.

I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early.

What we wouldn't want to see is just a piece of legislation on border security and high tech immigration without focusing on the path to citizenship for the 11 million people who are here, and other provisions.