Quotes About Focus

Being a good race car driver is one thing, but to take all the time commitments and all the pushing and pulling and learning when to say no - because you need to rest or focus on the things you need to do to make the car go fast - those are the hardest things to learn and the most distracting things to learn.

I just feel so confident when I get in my race car that I'm going to do good, I'm going to win, I'm going to outrun everybody.

I'm just a race car driver.

I get asked all the time 'didn't you ever want to be a race car driver?' And I knew pretty early on that I was going to be on the other side of that equation.

I lost races because I wanted too much to win them in beating my rivals.

I need to find a way to improve my qualifying performances because then I think my races will be even better.

Sometimes, I arrive at races more energetic and clear-minded than ever, and then I have a terrible race. And the opposite is also true.

I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

Even in the middle of races, when things don't go well, I don't let it bother me nearly as much as I used to in the past.

Somehow when I am at the racetrack, I don't really realise what is happening and I just focus on the job.

The goal is not to count medals, it's just racing the best I can.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

When I was a kid I was only interested in going fast and I still love that feeling of speed. But when you start to go racing, it's winning that's important.

What matters to me is that I get the most out of myself and my racing.

Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.

You still need a good balance of what we do away from racing, and I feel like school, for me, has been that balance.

The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

I probably work harder, putting in a lot of time and effort, than a lot of drivers because all I think about, and all I do, is to do with racing, trying to make myself a better driver.

There's a line you have when you're racing, and you can ride up to that line. If you push beyond it, you might crash. But first is first, second is forgotten. That's what we say.

I put myself under a lot of pressure when I was racing, all the time.

I'm an intense guy, I want to do more and my mind is racing at 100mph.

I'm not racing through my division - I'm cleaning it out.