Focus Quotes

"Always be ready to release your mind."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"Think of your opponents hands and feet as swords."

- Gichin Funakoshi

"SHUCHU RYOKU - Focus all your energy to one point."

- Shioda Gozo, Founder of Yoshinkan / Yoshinkai Aikido

""Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared physically and mentally to handle that chaos.""

- BJ Penn

""If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength, you tire. If you tire, you die"."

- Saulo Ribeiro

""See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.""

- Yagyu Munenori

""Relaxation is the key that unlocks speed and power.""

- Bob Orlando

""If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.""

- Caio Terra

""Even though surrounded by several enemies set to attack, fight with the thought that they are but one.""

- Morihei Ueshiba (Aikido)

""Keep your mind clear and the technique will come.""

- Audrey Ward

""Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.""

- Jitsumi Gogen Yamaguchi

"अगर आप सफल होना चाहते हो तो आपको अपने काम में एकाग्रता लानी होगी.."

- बिल गेट्स

"The biggest barriers I’ve faced have been from people who make assumptions about what I can’t do, who assume that because I’m in a wheelchair I can’t be an athlete or I won’t be competitive. That’s ok because I’m focused, single-minded and good at blocking those people."

- Tanni Grey-Thompson

"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."

- Marcus Aurelius

"It’s not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?"

- Henry David Thoreau

"You become what you give your attention to."

- Epictetus

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

- Seneca

"Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens to me. I see the vision of a runner ahead of me, maybe just 15, 20 meters ahead of me, and the cadence of that runner, which is actually me in the future, is a little quicker, so if I am going (his rhythm/breathing), then my ghost runner, the vision of me, ahead of me, like opening up and just going for it, is quicker."

- Gabe Jennings

"The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future."

- Emma Hayes

"For me, it’s about controlling what I can control. I can’t control where I’m going to be put on the pitch. I can only control my effort and my ability to embrace anything thrown at me."

- Crystal Dunn

"Honestly, I’ve just been trying to improve all parts of my game, a statistic is just a statistic."

- Lindsey Horan

"I am a firm believer if I do the little things right every day–that means here, in training and the games–that angle will come. I’m not looking at it and getting overwhelmed, I’m just focusing on, ‘What am I doing right now to get better?’ And that will help prepare me for whatever is next."

- Andi Sullivan

"I don’t celebrate because I’m only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?"

- Mario Balotelli

"A ferocious concentration and fanatical execution is what you need to finish strong."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"It’s not the first, but the last step in the race…the last shot in the basket, the last volley in tennis, the last swing of the bat that makes the lasting difference…for that is where the game is won and that is why you must always finish strong."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Here’s the plan…Start fast, stay focused, finish strong!"

- Gary Ryan Blair

"You can only fix one thing at a time… so don’t try and solve everything at once."

- Unknown Paramedic

"You can do anything you put your mind to, but you can’t do everything you put your mind to."

- Thomas Griffin

"May this Saturday bring you clarity and focus, enabling you to achieve your goals with ease."

"No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn’t the start that matters. It’s the finish line."