Omar Benson Miller Quotes

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges.

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

I was still auditioning when I was in college, but I wasn't really giving it the old college try. I was giving college the old college try.

When you're young, you want to do everything. You want to go out and find girls; you want to have a drink - there are a lot of things you want to do. But if you want to make it to the top, there are a lot of things you can't do.

You can't let someone else's agenda hijack your day.

I really didn't get to experience college. I enjoyed Ohio State, but I didn't feel like I had a chance to live the college life. When some guys got bored, they went out partying or to the student center. When I got bored, I went to the gym.

I was big into football in college.

You just have to know yourself well enough to know what's important. And when you do that, things just don't get in your way. You don't allow them to.

I played volleyball and basketball, and I did track and volleyball in college.

Last time I failed is when I fell in love with distractions.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

I played all four years [at St. Mary's College] with - at a certain point, basketball became the thing I was doing most, but it was really in my periphery.

It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.

But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.

I wanted to play football and see how that went. In my mind, I knew I wasn't good enough to be a pro, but I was having a really fun time doing it. When you're on a college team, you can tell who's going to be a pro or not almost instantly.

Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.