Quotes About Focus

Looking at everything I've done in my career as a footballer, at all the titles, I believe that what's hugely important is motivation.

I am feeling very well here and want to achieve much more with BVB and win titles. I am here and nowhere else: not at Arsenal, not at Barcelona, and not on the moon.

I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.

I think that titles are for, I don't know, books and stuff. I just like doing what I'm doing.

Although offensive play is important, it's defending that gets you titles.

I'm not here to dance around. I'm here to fight for titles.

I want all the titles.

When you start the match, you forget that you are No. 1, you have all the titles. You just have the battle ahead in front of you.

I didn't care about titles unless they were championship titles. I don't care about who the man is on the team.

You're not going to win a division, you're not going to win personal stats, titles, whatever, in the first month of the season.

I did not come to PSG to have a good time, but to work with humility, desire and above all to win titles because that's what we love.

I'm now in my late 30s, and I've been thinking a lot about marriage and family. To be honest, I've decided to push aside thoughts of marriage and personal questions for now.

To be a footballer was just a dream, and I don't believe in dreams. I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.

I never really look too far ahead, to be honest.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

Everyone is like, 'What were you thinking on the podium?' I'm like, I'm just like probably thinking, like, 'We're hungry,' to be honest.

I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.

To be honest, football is my main goal. I never really had a backup plan.

I don't want to lie. Always, I want to be honest and I say,I don't think about tomorrow. I don't think about next season.'

Being compared to players, being linked to other teams - I don't really take any of it in, to be honest. If you think about it too much, you get caught up in it.

I don't look too far ahead, to be honest.

On any longball, people try to outjump each other. I don't mind a big jump, but to be honest, the only thing you have to do is fight for the spot where the ball is going to land.

I don't watch goalkeepers, to be honest.

I'm not a big fan of options, to be honest. The more options that I have, the less time that I spend actually completing things... ultimately, I think, if you have endless choices, I mean, the tendency to just choose endlessly is there, and that doesn't do anything for anybody, really.