Tommy Caldwell Quotes

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.

I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

There was plays where I had to do certain things, but I wouldn't even know who caught the ball because I was so focused on getting my job done.

Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.

Once I get an opponent, I'm locked into him.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

People just see what they want to see.

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

You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.

The man who consumes sports to the exclusion of all other things will never be well-rounded.

I probably don't have any room in my mind for anything but football. My dad tells me I'm a total vegetable outside of just knowing football.

When you're an athlete, you've got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of other things in life tends to be limited because you have to have such a focus on what you're doing. I wasn't a good enough player to stray from that focus and still keep my ability.

I am just focusing on one match at a time.

Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

Genius. It is just attention to something specific. That's all it is. Law of Attraction makes it happen, and so anyone who gives attention to any subject for a period of time will evolve in the direction of that understanding.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.