Marquise Goodwin Quotes

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

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 most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.

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.

Nothing can come in the way of my studies. That's top priority.

There is only one thing I want to do here, and that is play football to the best of my ability. If I let things start distracting me, I'm not going to be able to do that, which will jeopardise the team as well.

For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

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

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

I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

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

I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

I'm very big on focus.

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.

People get so focused on the big dream that they forget about the process.

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

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.