Quotes About Alertness

I know you can't lose concentration when you get in range, otherwise you'll get caught with something.

As a goalkeeper, you like to be called upon.

What goalkeeper doesn't like a little action?

You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

Caffeine is a good thing.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

All Premier League fixtures are tricky, you always need your wits about you whether you are playing top or bottom.

Baseball is not an emotional game, we have to get your brain working. Baseball, you have to have your wits about you when you go out there so you have to be not emotional.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

He looked like a sleepwalker waking up on the verge of a precipice.

If the body is at a certain level of alertness and awareness you will see that once it is well rested, it will awaken—that is, if it is eager to come to life. If it is somehow trying to use the bed as a grave, then it is a problem. Keep the body in such a way that it is not longing to avoid or escape life. Maintain it in such a way that it is longing to come awake.

We're stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we're always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.

Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft. They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent all their lives in the open and troubled their heads very little with dull things in books.

It is time now for us to rise from sleep.

It's time to stop your grinnin' and drop your linen!

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

Every time a puck gets past me and I look back into the net, I say, 'uh-oh.'

I'm painfully aware of my surroundings at all times.

A good horse is a man's best friend in time of danger.

I keep my eyes wide open all the time.

I saw a button pin once that said: "I'm not tense. I'm just very, very alert.

Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation.

You wake in the morning, you're feeling fine, but all at once you think, "Something's not right. Something's off somewhere; what is it?" And then you remember