John Wooden Quotes

It takes a lot of hard work to stay committed and focus on what I wanted to achieve.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

I know how to stay focused on a mission.

If you're running a race, and you're looking at the lane to your right or your left, you're gonna trip instead of... focusing forward.

I can't let distractions get in the way.

I can't dwell on something that has nothing to do with football at all - it will hold me back.

I think I do a pretty good job of not letting things distract me from what I want to do and what I want to accomplish as a football player.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

You've just got to focus on what you have to do.

Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without the other.

A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.

Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you.

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.