Martina Navratilova Quotes

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.

I give all my life to football; I only think about football. This is what is on my mind all the time.

You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.

I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.

I'm focused on what I'm doing and nothing can stop that.

I love watching Virat Kohli bat. I love his aggression and serious passion that I used to have. He reminds me of myself.

The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

Never concede the putt that beats you.

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.

I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.

Find a way to get back in to the game, find a way to build a partnership, find a way to catch a ball, find a way to stop it.

Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a book. I have to stick to it and concentrate.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.