Quotes about Determined Focus

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough.

Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.

In your mindset, you just have to know there's going to be another opportunity, and you have to keep focused.

Being champion, there's a different mindset.

If I wasn't aiming to break into the Arsenal first team, that wouldn't be the correct mindset.

Like a great athlete, we must have a very clear vision of what we want to accomplish before we make a move. Vision, in preparation for an action, is as important as the action itself. —Marianne Williamson, Healing the Soul

Coming up with goals, updating them, and monitoring our progress in achieving them is less important, I believe, than the process of emotionally deciding what it is you want to do.

Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't.

This lesson happened to be in the context of fishing, but the basic high-hope message was the same across situations: Set clear goals and then get energized about ways to reach those objectives.

I'll choose my targets with care… then give them my rapt attention. In short, I'll live the focused life, because it's the best kind there is.

I know how to zone myself in and just play the game.

I'm the kind of guy who, if I look inside and they throw me a fastball outside, and it's a strike, I'm going to swing. Everything in the strike zone, I'm going to swing. Doesn't matter if it's a fastball, changeup, breaking ball. If it's in the strike zone and it's something you like, you've got to swing.

I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.

I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

Once you get into the spacecraft, you're on your way, you've got a mission, you're focused, and it's really exciting.

It's amazing how much work you can get done in three days if you hold a blowtorch to each end of the candle.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

I'm just trying to look at everything as positive as I can to keep me motivated.

You need to be competitive, but a lot of that you can internalize and use that as motivation to drive you. You do not need to show it all the time.

I see you're determined to miss my point." "If you're point is that there was a pretty girl in the room and it was distracting you, then I think I've taken your point handily." "You think she's pretty?" Will was surprised; Jem rarely opinioned this sort of thing. "Yes, and you do too." "I hadn't noticed, really." "Yes, you have, and I've noticed you noticing.