Quotes About Focus

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball up and in, a perfect pitcher's pitch, and you're able to just foul it off and stay alive in the at-bat, just keep grinding, keep working through the at-bat and hoping for that mistake that he's going to make. And if he doesn't, then you walk.

I never actually thought about my delivery. I was always just throwing the ball.

As long as the ball is thrown by a human being, I have the confidence to hit any pitch, no matter how fast it comes.

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

I operate from a place of like water on a duck's back. When things are thrown at me or said to me that aren't worth my time, they don't register with me. Like it just rolls off my back.

My technique is such that even if I turn my back on the throw, I understand what I have thrown and I start celebrating.

I have to be able to make plays when the ball is thrown to my side.

In the past I've thrown my wicket away on certain occasions.

I have to learn the plays before I can worry about getting passes thrown to me.

Sometimes you can get distracted by figures that are thrown out there and you're doing things you wouldn't normally try to do.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it's just you, the ball, and the target.

The fundamentals of your business are like free throws: emphasize and practice them to perfection.

I try not to feel pressure, because I feel like it kind of throws you off. I always try to focus on myself. But it does kind of creep into the back of my mind.

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.

If someone throws you a good slider, you're not going to hit it. You've got to always hunt those ones that kind of pop up or hang thigh-high or up.

Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.

I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.

I'm not paying attention to Kevin Durant. I don't have any recollection of watching him play. I can't remember how he shoots free throws.

To improve my free throws I went back to the mechanics and really learning how to have form and shoot the ball, so I have to get comfortable with that.

We don't want to give up free throws. Those are mistakes.

I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.

Everything is mental, but if you just remember to stay with your same technique, you will be fine. If you stay confident, make sure you are doing the same thing over and over; the free throws will fall.

I think free throws are harder because you have more time to think about it, and every eye is on you. When it's a trey, you catch and shoot.