Quotes About Focus

I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.

You must prepare to quit, and they should start doing that from day one because the average life of a pro-football player is only three and a half years. It's not five. It's not seven. It's not 10.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

Whatever I do in life, my parents always taught me to focus on that, and they never let me quit.

I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focus on fighting. I didn't want to just get deployed. I wanted to get in on the action.

I was used to having a job - ballet was my job, and I felt like I needed something artistic to focus on after I quit.

When I started really playing music, I pretty much quit sports. I quit everything.

I had to quit everything. I had to give it all for music.

Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting.

I drive quite a bit. I always drive myself to the airport prior to a race.

It is important as a bowler that you always need to have a presence. If you lose that you lose quite a bit, a big part of your armoury. It comes naturally with me, and at times it is a huge advantage. I don't want to lose it. I want to keep getting wickets.

I did not have the simulator for a long time but now I have it I am playing quite a lot - probably five hours a day. I am training to try to be competitive, and everything we do we want to be competitive as drivers.

Out of the car I am normal, calm. In the car I want to give my best. It is passion, when you are passionate about something you give everything. I change quite a lot when I am in the car.

What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

I tend to spend quite a lot of time on the film scores that I do.

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

You go your whole life for one moment that boils down to a race that lasts a couple seconds.

I don't race cars.

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

If I am going to race, I will put everything on the line.

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.

There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That's it.

It is one thing to drive a Formula 1 car, and it is another thing to actually race it.

I always sleep really well, particularly before a race, when the adrenaline's pumping.