Metta World Peace Quotes

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

A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.

It is not a problem - you don't think about the climate, or the cold; we just think about winning the game.

I'm not a player, I'm an alien...My focus is on winning championships. I don't focus on anything else. Aliens only want to win championships.

It's my dream and I see no point in speaking about other teams when I have these dreams. I think other people know that about me; I'm just hungry to win with Arsenal and that's it.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.

I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

My coach has said to me, "When you win a match or a tournament, you don't even think about it - the very next minute you're like".

Nothing surprises me anymore. We'll keep doing what we're doing. I'm going to keep going forward with solutions that I want to see applied to this great country, the challenges that we're facing. And things like that [e-mails as governor published] are going to be perhaps a distraction for others. They won't distract me.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

The men can go away, the executives can go away, but what is really though in this society are the players who has been handed down the feel of winning, of being the absolute best, which isn't equal to any other team.

Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name wirtten on it.

[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

I'm at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don't freak out...I don't think we can call it a rivalry yet. There's just to many great players around.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

I realize that just my personality is, that I've gotta stay focused. I can't be too distracted.

If you're a baseball player and you're on the mound, you don't ever want to look up in the stands if somebody is yelling at you, because they know they've got you. You just keep your head down, keep moving along. Of course it annoys you, but you don't ever show that it annoys you. Just go ahead, move on, and keep on playing.

When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning.

Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning