Quotes About Concentration

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf. There are countless things we can work on and think about in the swing, but when it's time to play in competition, you don't want to think too many thoughts.

Everybody here has the ability to throw a fastball down and away or throw a breaking ball in the dirt for a swing and a miss. But are we able to stay in that moment and understand what we're trying to accomplish and see it in our mind before we execute and then make the pitch?

Most players are like golfers. You don't want them swinging while they're thinking.

When I'm swinging the club at my best, it's because I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I feel like my body is loose. My arms are soft in front of me when I'm setting up, and my chest and shoulders feel as if they can move and turn easily.

When the ball is swinging, you really need to play close to your body.

Playing against Messi, as I've said before, is as tough a test of your concentration as any in football. At any moment, he can take the mickey out of you. Physically, it is demanding, but mentally even more so. You cannot switch off.

There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.

I don't do many films at the same time, as I don't like to switch between characters. At a given point, I would like to get into the skin of whatever character I am playing.

When you hit that safe 40-point mark it's very easy for a player to think about his holidays and actually switch off.

One of the great things about cricket, and certainly something that I found helpful, was that as soon as you step over the boundary rope you can switch off everything that is happening off the field and focus solely on what is happening out on the pitch.

I am professional. If I am on the field, I am 100 per cent focused on that. Off the field, I switch off.

When I'm playing football I'm switched off to everything else - it frees my mind.

A great deal of our work involves switching music off.

Sting is much better at switching off than I am. He can concentrate and meditate whatever might be going on in the room and is far more disciplined.

As soon as things get serious in front of the goal, I don't have any twitches... It's probably because at that moment, my concentration on the game is stronger than the Tourette syndrome.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

his head bowed over a typewriter with the rapt concentration of a chimpanzee wondering how best to start Hamlet.

Go to hell, I'm reading. ~Archie Goodwin