Focus Quotes

"My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus."

- Carl Lewis

"It's not pressure unless you are not prepared."

- Colin Kaepernick

"It’s not who’s put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who’s put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today."

- Nathan Adrian

"Preparation is everything and focus is the key. It’s easy to say you gave it your all out on the pitch. But the point is if you’d prepared you’d have had more to give and you’ve played better."

- Eric Cantona

"The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing."

- Michael Jordan

"You must see yourself run the race over and over, time and time again. You must put yourself in critical positions and see how you would react in those positions before the race so when and if they do happen, the feedback is automatic."

- Rodney Milburn

"The gun goes off and everything changes… the world changes… and nothing else really matters."

- Patti Sue Plummer

"My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: 'Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win.'"

- Carl Lewis

"One skill that separates good from almost-good runners is an ability to concentrate for an entire race, whether it is a mile or a marathon."

- Kara Goucher

"The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything."

- Lee Iacocca

"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."

- Ray Knight

"The more focused you are, the more successful you will be."

- Tony Robbins

"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Concentration is the key to economic success."

- Calvin Coolidge

"The ability to focus is a defining characteristic of successful individuals."

- Brian Tracy

"It’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important."

- Steve Jobs

"You have to say no to a lot of good things in order to be able to say yes to a lot of great things."

- Steve Jobs

"Focus is about saying no. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts."

- Steve Jobs

"It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality."

- Og Mandino

"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things."

- Steve Jobs

"Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention."

- James Arthur Ray

"Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do."

- John Carmack

"For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment."

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate."

- Betty Buckley

"I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time."

- James Caviezel

"I just want to focus on one thing at a time."

- Josh Silver

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular."

- Tony Robbins

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"It’s Thursday, the day to remember how much you have done and still keep your eye on the prize – the weekend!"

- Unknown

"You can’t do big things if you’re distracted by small things."