Quotes About Focus

This is what I've always wanted to do. I've always wanted to be a professional tennis player.

I actually wanted to be a tennis player.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a tennis player.

I'll prove that I'm going to be the best tennis player, one day, to play this game.

There is so much that goes in to being a good tennis player. It's not just what you can do well on the court, it's between the ears as well.

I always just thought of myself as a tennis player.

My reality was that I would become a tennis player. I never had any doubt about it. It was my life.

When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.

I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

Even if I do miss a shot, I found something to keep me calm and not get myself rattled. Once I missed one, I'd tense up and I'd miss the next one, too. So I found a peace within myself.

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

A lot of times when I'm confident and relaxed on the court, I'm going to be a pretty tough out. But when I'm not so confident and not so relaxed, I tense up and my balls fall short and everything. It just sort of unravels.

That's what a lot of people say, especially in college, it looked like I'm lackadaisical out there, like I'm not really paying attention. If I'm always tense, I'm going to be overthinking the game. I try to just go with the flow.

Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.

I don't show tension and nervousness, but I know how fast my heartbeat races before a race.

Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.

I have no tension. I only play to give my best.

Building and sustaining tension is always my priority, so home entertainment provides challenges to that.