Quotes About Focus

All I can focus on is playing as many games as I can at the highest level. If that leads me to the World Cup, then brilliant. It's certainly a target of mine.

In a tournament like the World Cup, you have got to be on top of your game every game.

A lot of things have to come together to win a World Cup.

While we play for the club we are focused on usual routine, but when we are with the national team and the new kit is unveiled we feel closer to the World Cup.

In a World Cup every single game is important; you are not allowed to make mistakes, not allowed to fail. If you want to win, you have to be there every game.

I have not compromised in the last seven years on my preparations, be it a small series or a World Cup. I know that there is a World Cup, but I want to go out and play my game.

At this level, if you are aiming for the World Cup, because the tournament is so long there will be points where the team may lose a couple of games.

The World Cup is the toughest challenge there is. You have seven matches where you have to bring your best and cannot let up at any turn.

The greatest challenge of a World Cup is having mental fortitude. The pressure is immense.

It's a World Cup, there's no easy games in this tournament.

Many clubs use sports psychologists today. But you have to work with a mental coach for months. You can't just start when you are in the World Cup.

If you are playing in any team or even if you represent your country, some pressure is there. This is a World Cup so all the eyes are on you.

Two days before the World Cup, it's a good time to be back to your best.

Of course I want to get into the England World Cup team, especially having been so close, but I'm not going to be concentrating on it or let it be at the front of my mind.

Thinking constantly about world domination can give you a little vertigo. The way I usually get through my day is by limiting my horizon to serving the next few customers or increasing revenues in the next few months.

While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.

The most important thing is winning, not breaking the world record.

There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that's why it surprised me that I had broken my world record.

For me, I've not really focused on a world record. I'm just trying to put a complete race together, and when I do that, then fast times will come.

I did not know about awards. I just wanted to break the world record and the Olympic record.