Quotes About Focus

The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.

I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. There was a five-a-side next to the flat, and I used to play there all the time. It was all about football. I wanted to be a professional. That was my goal. I didn't want to be anything other than a footballer.

I'm too professional, too much of a perfectionist to take my eye off the ball.

I don't know about politics so much. I'm a professional athlete.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

My dream was always to be a professional athlete.

This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

I know I have a big future in front of me, so that's my main focus. So when I'm outside of the ring, I try to carry myself as a professional athlete, not just anybody.

In professional football you have to live day-to-day.

I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.

I have never let the personal life affect my professional life.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

Professionally, I like doing one thing at a time and enjoy directing the most.

Already in go-karts, I said, 'OK, that's what I really want to do professionally as a career, as a job.'

I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'

When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.

When I was about 16, I started to believe I could play professionally. I worked hard and focused more.

People have different opinions. They are entitled to that and as professionals we get on with it and forget about it and concentrate on what we do on the pitch.

As modern-day professionals it all comes down to how you perform on the pitch.

We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.

We're professionals, we have to deal with criticism. We get talked about a lot but we have to focus on doing our job well.

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

To be on a sound footing, one must have one's perceptions of life clear, and a strong foundation. That is all that ultimately matters, not only in modelling, but in other professions as well.

And maybe some people do it too much, are too selfish and concentrated on chess. But I think that in all professions you can find a lot of people like that.