Gary Lineker Quotes

For many years, tennis was the most important thing in my life. That was great. Nothing wrong with that.

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.

I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

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

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don't really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.

I just want to continue to play great football - that's all that matters. I don't really care about the accolades or any of that.

I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

During the season... fun, to me, is getting sacks, making tackles and winning games. It's not spending money, girls, or, you know, this and that.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?

The biggest thing is winning. No matter what percentage, no matter what my numbers say in the sense of points, assists, rebounds and steals, it's always been about winning.

I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

You go to a contest, and it's like, 'OK, I'm here for two weeks. All my energy, time, thinking, and everything is going toward that.' Everything you're doing is building toward the score at the end.

It's a personal challenge for me, to give the best of myself, to win titles, to score goals for my team, and to help when needed.

My motivation is only for us to win a championship. Anything else, I'm not concerned about.

One of my strengths is focusing on football, and even in the summer, I try not to switch off too much.

I don't do anything else but play basketball.

I have one thing in mind: make the most out of football.