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When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants.

I've always been very intense about everything I do.

I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.

As a child I could lie in bed and do absolutely nothing for hours but once I decided to do something, big or small, I could not stop until it had been completed.

Whenever I really get serious about something, I pull my hair back into a tight ponytail. If you see me with that, you know I mean business.

I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.

Whenever I do something, I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

My message is always very, very clear: I'm very concentrated on the game.

If I'm doing a job, I'll give it 100%, and that job gets my absolute focus, and everything else goes to the side. Then, that job is finished, I'll concentrate on the next job.

I can focus on just one thing - that's basketball.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

I can be horrifically single-minded.

When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

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.

Do whatever you do intensely.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

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.

Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.