Quotes About Focus

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

I loved school. Not sure how much I focused on the education; just had fun and played lacrosse for seven years. It was lucky I had sport, which I was good at, so it didn't matter that I wasn't great on the academic side, or not brilliant at drama. Although I am still bitter about not being in the school choir. Furious, actually.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

I don't look any further than what's right in front of me.

If I have to go through Fury after my Povetkin fight - and I never look past my next fight; I am not that foolish - to get those belts, I would love to fight him next.

I don't take pressure. I can't really work under pressure. I do one film at a time, and I try to live in that character and in the moment. I am not a futuristic person who thinks what is going to happen after five years. And I don't live in the past.

What matters - the only thing that matters - is winning. It's nice to entertain the fans and to gain new ones, especially from the States, but on the night... that's all that matters.

It's always nice to be on the practice field because, ultimately, practice is the most important thing other than the game because that's where you gain your confidence; that's where you get your fundamentals.

Every fighter has to go in there with a game plan.

I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again!

It's all about being sharp and not taking too much damage. That's always the game plan.

I think about the game plan, and then I go through all the little things that are almost impossible to do. If you go through those things in your mind, you can do them.

That's the game plan - I've got it written down on paper: beat everyone. And that's what I'm looking forward to doing.

I don't focus on how I'm gonna get the finish or how I would like to get the finish. I focus on just my game plan that I've gone over with myself, my coaches. If the finish comes it comes.

Every time you play against somebody like Giannis, you have to be really locked into the game plan.

As a fighter, from my fighting experience a problem for me was I never too much stick with my game plan.

I was just getting away from my game plan. What I was doing really, I wasn't using it to my advantage in '18. And that was it.

I like competing. Just going out there and battling. Having a game plan and going out there and executing it.

Be smart, fight smart and stick to the game plan.

I lost my fight against Brett Rogers because... I didn't follow my game plan.

But I'm the worst sort of gamer because I don't stick to things and I don't really care about winning. It's the same with sports and stuff like that. If it's too difficult I'll stop.

I am more focused on the games; things like contracts I leave with my agent.

You have so many games to play, and you can do well in one game but bad in the other ones. The thing you've got to be is consistent.

That's all I'm really concerned about - contribute and try to win games.