Quotes About Focus

We must condition the players. They need to get into the right frame of mind in the hours leading up the game.

I am in a frame where I want to enjoy cricket. Of course, I think about my game: how I got out, what I could have done better. But that I think for half-an-hour and that's enough.

I think pressure is a frame of mind.

You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?

I don't really think of records beforehand. I don't want them to freak me out.

To play the ultimate Reading set, you need to freak yourself out for a few days beforehand.

I don't think it's right to think ahead to free agency.

When I entered free agency, I said whatever team I end up on, I'm going to work.

The reason why I'm playing good is because I don't think one second about my free agency.

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

I didn't just freestyle it. At the end, it's about bread.

What happened with Gutknecht does frequently cross my mind, but I can't do anything about my situation. I need to carry on boxing so that's what I've been doing.

I don't think that I've scored these many runs or I've achieved these things, because I believe it is something that doesn't help me. Whenever I go out to bat, it's a fresh start.

Keeping mental freshness is sometimes difficult... but it is easier when you win.

In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don't fret about all the other problems. Most of the time, they don't come true anyway!

I want to give 100 per cent every day whether it's training, a cup final or a friendly.

I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

No, I've never been frightened before a fight.

I like being at the front - it's where I'm meant to be.

When you love someone, then you put that person front and center.

If the world is in complete flux for me and life is falling apart, if I just manage to get myself in front of a computer or at my desk, it calms.

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.