Focus Quotes

"In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary."

- Shalane Flanagan

"Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you."

- Rihanna

"You don't need to raise money. You need to be smart and be focused."

- Mark Cuban

"The first 90 minutes are the most important."

- Bobby Robson

"Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins."

- Johan Cruyff

"Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces."

- Marilyn vos Savant

"When you're facing a different guy every at-bat, he's coming at you with his best stuff. There's no warm-up; there's no 'see a pitch.' You've got to be locked in from the very first pitch... The biggest thing is do your homework before the game starts."

- Aaron Judge

"I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it."

- Jonathan Nolan

"Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script."

- Mads Mikkelsen

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

- Swami Vivekananda

"It is not very good for your head if you go up and down and up and down. I want to try to keep going up, with my quality and with my decisions that I make."

- Wojciech Szczesny

"Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused."

- Cliff Burton

"It’s about focusing on the fight and not the fright."

- Robin Roberts

"If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything."

- Confucius

"You’re a few steps away from getting it and you’re losing focus. Not now; this ain’t the time."

- Deion Sanders

"If what you do doesn't bring you closer to your dream or goals why are you doing it?"

- Deion Sanders

"You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I’m doing and how I want to swim my races."

- Katie Ledecky

"In Athens I was 17 and I didn’t have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody."

- Laure Manaudou

"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."

- Amanda Beard

"I’m trying to do the best I can. I’m not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today."

- Mark Spitz

"Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It’s the reason why I was able to swim so well."

- Libby Lenton

"Never worry about what anyone else is doing…Just swim your own race."

- Dara Torres

"We’ve seen, time and again, when people focus on the outcome rather than what needs to be done to achieve a desirable result, then the wheels fall off."

- Cate Campbell

"I can’t imagine what I would be doing if I wasn’t swimming. It is what I want to do now; it is what I want to do in the foreseeable future, and that is what I’m focusing on."

- Cate Campbell

"Focusing is about saying ‘No."

- Steve Jobs

"Too busy to give a fuck."

- Hustle Inspires Hustle

"In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance."

- Louis Fabian Bachrach

"Mind over matters."

"When life gets blurry, adjust your focus"

"Focus on the solution not the problem"