Carl Yastrzemski Quotes

I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.

When I'm shooting, that's all I do.

I was so locked in. At one point I remember thinking, I'm not going to be a father, boyfriend, friend, whatever. I'm here to play.

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem.

I don't know how I look when I'm on the court to tell you the truth, I'm just focused.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

I'm playing right now a role, and the role is called the 'Heavyweight Champion of the World.' And it takes all of the time. And I love this role, and it takes a lot of attention for me for the sport, and I just don't want to lose the title, so that's why I have to stay focused and not become an actor.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

When you do RAW or Wrestlemania or a PPV where there's 10,000 people or more, you don't necessarily look at the people. The only time there's a realization that there's that many people is when you walk to the ring. Once you get in the ring, your focus is only on the ring, and maybe the front few rows.

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

I wake up in the morning and I think about one brand. I don't have enough time to wake up twice and think about two.

I'm a baseball freak.

My focus is basketball, and that's it.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.