Eniola Aluko Quotes

I always love being able to dance with athletes because they just know how to be coached.

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don't see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

Sometimes you lose the head a bit, and lose your position, when you should be more relaxed and hold your position, which is better for the team.

Everything we did on the training pitch, we did with the ball. You'll never see a pianist run around his piano. People ask me, 'Why don't you run through the forest, through the trees?' Well, I've never seen a tree on a football field.

I think any time you can go out and put pads on and practice before the season, I think it's a good sign. It's a good sign.

I just like to be in my zone, playing football.

I have to devote my time and thoughts to training and playing.

During the off-season, I try to increase my practice sessions, and I am also training with my coaches.

I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.

As a player you just concentrate on your game.

To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.

When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing.

Channel your energy. Focus.

I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.

Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage, I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don't know about my wrists is my wrists don't go all the way back. My wrists are crooked and don't go all the way back. I've been practicing and working on them. You can't do everything good.

At Barca we trained every day with the ball. I hardly even took a step running without a ball at my feet.

It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.

When it's time to focus in and play ball during the season, 100% of my focus is on that. When it's the offseason and I've got time to be away and I can do other interests - they don't conflict. I'm good at compartmentalizing. I can put everything in its appropriate box at the time and open it up when I need to at a later time.