Quotes About Concentration

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.

People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

I never chased around with the opposition or got too well acquainted with them, because when the time in the ballgame came up where I had to pitch inside, I didn't want to hesitate.

I would say I stay pretty calm. Don't let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions in check, I guess, so I don't show that anything fazes me out there. And I try to take it one pitch at a time.

When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.

I know not to let myself get distracted and to concentrate on what happens on the pitch.

I do need to focus on playing my football and what's happening on the pitch rather than off it... I want to be myself and not think about it.

Try to be on every pitch, try to be in the moment, and try to think every ball's going to come at you, no matter if it's not, but trying to get that mindset going.

When I am on the pitch, I don't focus on the opposition fans. I am focused on doing my best for the team.

When you're on the pitch, you can't think about what the fans are thinking.

As players, we have to concentrate with what happens on the pitch, not off it.

I want to focus on football and just go on the pitch to do my thing.

You have to go up there, and it's you vs. the pitcher. No one's there to help you. That's how I go about it.

It's easy to sit there in the dugout when the game's going on and talk, chitchat about this and that. But I think paying attention, watching the pitcher, watching the game develop, putting yourself in situations you're not even in yet, anticipating the game, stuff like that, I think that really helps you take that extra step.

I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.

There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.

You still have to pitch the same game, execute your pitches as best you can. If the shadows end up helping you out, then great, but you can't really worry about that stuff.

Airplanes are a good place to concentrate because you get no emails, no phone calls.

The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

I like being on a plane with no phone service because I get so much work done.

I particularly like writing on planes. You've got nothing else to do but concentrate.

There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much to think about in the field, you don't have time to think about what you did at the plate last time. 'How did he get me out?'