William J. Crowe Jr. Quotes

Even though we don't always realize it, as the day goes on, we have increased difficulty exerting self-control and focusing on our work. As self-control wears out, we feel tired and find tasks to be more difficult, and our mood sours.

We want you to pay attention.

You need to be sharp the whole race, and eventually you start getting mentally tired and make little mistakes over and over.

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the true pleasure of the sport, when they're tired or demoralized or they're not quite focused.

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.

When you have two races in a row, it's really important to keep that mental energy stable.

Sometimes you have faced no shots during 90 minutes, and in minute 91, there is a shot. You always need to be focused, concentrated, and this is what makes you tired, being so focused.

Twenty-five minutes is a long time to stay focused. It's really something I had to work on to go in there and not get complacent for 2 seconds or 5 seconds or 1 second. That's all it takes.

Defending is mostly about focus.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly.

You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.

I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Every flaw you have or lapse of concentration can cost you a goal, so you have to be on your toes every minute of the game.

We do about 600 saves in a training week, just for that one save on a match day. That's why you've got to be in the game at all times.

There's people who can, like, dive into material for hours and hours and hours and work on one tiny little specific thing without getting bored of it. Learning how to do that was, like, very useful.

It could be very costly if you don't have a clear mind during a tournament.

I know you can't lose concentration when you get in range, otherwise you'll get caught with something.

It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.