Quotes About Focus

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.

Every golfer has a little monster in him. It's just that type of sport.

I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.

They should have focused more on me.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.

There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.

I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things.

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

Thinking ... is what gets you caught from behind.

Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.

I try to focus and compete and do positive things for the sport.

I'm forever gonna miss the start to the finish, the rush of racing downhill.

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.