Quotes About Focus

I don't worry about the last shot or the next shot. I concentrate. Every shot gets a clean slate. And when a shot is over, I wipe it out absolutely. Tell a joke or something. If you worry about how you looked, how well you did, you'll go insane.

I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.

I can't go on the court crying because then it's a big advantage for my opponent, so I have to wipe my tears, have a good warm-up, feel the ball and then start grooving in the game.

When you watch the top guys, you know there will be no drama all match. They're gonna wipe their face between points, they're gonna ask for balls, they're gonna choose the ball, they're gonna bounce the ball 200 times, they're gonna hit the ball, and that's it. That's the whole story.

I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details.

It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.

The wire is a safe place for me to be. The street is not. Life is not. It's a rigorous and simple path. It's straight. You don't have meanders like, you know, on the ground, in life.

On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.

Every possession matters, and everything goes down to the wire.

If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.

I started walking a wire when I was 2 years old, and this has been a dream of mine to recreate this walk.

To do this walk, I believe it's around 2,000 feet, to go from the U.S. to Canada. I would train walking a wire almost 8,000 feet, to overtrain for this.

My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer.

I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire.

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.

Usually, when I walk on a wire, I inspect the anchor point on both sides before crossing.

It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.

I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.

Whoever I'm with, that's the person I'm with. That's the way I'm wired.