Quotes About Focus

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

In the morning, I usually get up between 7:40 A.M. and 7:45 A.M., and then I'll brush my teeth, do my hair, and just throw on my leotard and my clothes and go to the kitchen.

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.

In my bullpen sessions, I'm just trying to feel comfortable, throw strikes, and not get too complicated.

I know I don't throw very hard anymore, but I'd like to think I can still hurt a guy who's not looking.

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

My batting practice would be a guy throwing balls in the way in which I liked it. It was all about getting ball on bat, rather than something whizzing past your ear.

I would say darts is probably 15 per cent throwing. The rest of it is mental strength. Being able to hold your nerve.

When you're out there, you aren't paying attention to who you're throwing to. You're looking for the guy that's open.

If you are going to talk negative about a place, you're almost throwing yourself out to begin with because golf is a mental game.

I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.

You know, it's a different deal - throwing a football as opposed to throwing a baseball.

You can't drink too many otherwise you can't see what you're throwing at.

The day I think about throwing the ball away at the beginning of a play, I should stop playing.

To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you're throwing it or running it in, it's not a big difference in terms of the score at all, obviously. But turnovers limit your scoring. That's the problem with turnovers.

Regardless of how long it took or what I had to go through to get there, I had visualizations of throwing no-hitters or throwing shutouts.

I'll get in that habit of throwing the ball over the plate too much. You want to keep it going, get those guys back into the dugout. But it's not a good thing when you're over more than a third of the plate.

I'm a firm believer in staying out of the way. When you're on a team and the guy's throwing a no-hitter, you don't talk to them. You let them do their thing.

I really focus on making sure that we pass good policy. I don't mind throwing my elbows around to get it done.

I love throwing the deep ball.

The player I am, if I drop a ball, keep throwing it.

I don't want to get good at throwing off schedule because I don't want to be off schedule. I want to have my protections to be solid, I want to be in the right play, and I want to get the ball out of my hands as quick as possible.

You have to stick to your plan. Throwing everything overboard and inventing something on the spot does not make sense. You will never get that from me.

You worry about how you're throwing the ball, how you're executing your pitches.