Quotes About Focus

Where the mind goes the body will follow.

I wasn't there to compete. I was there to win.

I have found you can still get the pump to come if you focus and concentrate hard enough.

His answer to life was discipline. We had a strict routine that nothing could change:

And when you visualize something very clearly, you believe that you 100 percent can get there.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

It might seem like I was handcuffing myself by setting such specific goals, but it was actually just the opposite: I found it liberating. Knowing exactly where I wanted to end up freed me totally to improvise how to get there.

It's human nature to work on the things that we are good at. If you have big biceps, you want to do an endless number of curls because it's so satisfying to see this major bicep flex. To be successful, however, you must be brutal with yourself and focus on the flaws.

After that, I never went to a competition to compete. I went to win. Even though I didn't win every time, that was my mind-set. I became a total animal. If you tuned into my thoughts before a competition, you would hear something like: "I deserve that pedestal, I own it, and the sea ought to part for me. Just get out of the fucking way, I'm on a mission. So just step aside and gimme the trophy.

Though you may not realize it now, you'll eventually recognize it when you take the same disciplined approach in tackling a particular challenge.

Sports are so physical that it's easy to overlook the mind's power, but I've seen it demonstrated again and again.

I do not mean to imply that outside circumstances or other people do not play a role in our lives. Certainly, many factors influence the conditions we experience. But if we focus our attention solely upon those factors, we feed a spirit of fear and uncertainty regarding our future.

spend very little time reflecting on my future...I know there is nothing I can do about tomorrow, other than what I am willing to do today.

What I did was focus on what I had and no on what I didn't have. Through that focus, I was able to make more changes.

perceptively

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration — and get between you and it.

The focus must be on the walk that is life with its string of present moments.

This discipline helps us work on mindfulness—living in the present as opposed to the past or future—which studies consistently find leads us to be happier people. But it also helps us to make the decisions that truly expose our best selves.

Finally, obsessing over the future squanders the present.

Why? If we are thinking about the past or future, "we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes.

That is, he tells them that to unlock their true potential and happiness, they need to articulate their deep purpose in life and shed the activities that are not in service of that purpose.