Oliver Burke Quotes

Too many people start their day like a five-alarm fire. Instead, I teach people to start their day a little earlier than they usually do, and urge them to take the time to prepare, to practise, so when you get to work, it's show time and you're at your best.

If you do things well one at a time, you end up in a really good place. Don't get ahead of yourself. Control the things you can.

Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

I've always been quiet in the dressing room before the game. I try to focus and give everything.

I keep my focus on the team and concentrate on the best possible match preparations.

My garage/office is strewn with Post-its, cards, folders, notebooks, yoga mats and multicoloured pens, all purchased in a quest to unlock a magic way of working that will ensure my ascension to next-level creativity.

I learn how to put myself in situations at practice that cause me to zone in on what I'm trying to accomplish at meets. I try to make my practice surrounding as close to competition pressure to focus on what I need to do on the big stage.

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

I always have on my headphones to block out all of the other distractions and I'm just focused on doing the best that I can.... There a few of them ... DMX Party Up ... Mack 10 BC and Ice Cube Connected for Life. I also listen to the Eminem CD ...whichever song really gets me going that night

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

I just have to be very, very organised.

I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.

I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don't like having a lot of atmosphere around.

I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.