Quotes About Focus

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

What's tough is being good every day.

It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.

To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

Body does what mind prefers.

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.

Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.

Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

There is no such thing as life in-between.

There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending.

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.