Quotes About Focus

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

I've played too many tennis hours.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

In tennis you move a lot. Golf you don't. In tennis, you can have a bad half-hour, but you can't in golf. You can lose the first set in tennis and still win.

I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.

I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.

Tennis is a full-time job and not just the two hours that people see when we're on the court.

I want to play my best tennis at the Grand Slams.

When I'm playing well because of my serve and trying to keep points shorter, I don't need to worry about my opponent. All I need to do is focus on myself and have them adjust to me rather than me adjust to them. That's when I play my best tennis.

I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

You can ask a lot of the people around me - I'm very demanding. I expect them to be as intense about my tennis on a daily basis as I am.

If you're playing someone you care about, it's tough, and I don't want to be in that situation. We are playing big matches for big points and prize money, and I take it very seriously. I relax when I'm outside tennis.

I spent about five years stuck in a room between the ages of 16 and 20 while I wrote the first book, which came out when I was 21. I should have been out playing tennis.

I did everything - swimming, dancing, and badminton as well as tennis. It was always tennis that I really loved, though.

I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

My priority is always playing tennis and practising and doing my schedule with my tennis.

That's my every day: putting things aside and going out there and have two hours of concentration of tennis.