Ralph Santiago Quotes

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

When there's training, I will focus only on training.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

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

I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

You're always fascinated by what you do, and how other people look at it.

The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.

The F-word here is focus.

I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration.

Almost everything is interesting if you work at it.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.

My attention span has never been on point - in school as well - unless I'm very, very, very into something.

There's something about majors where I just focus a lot more. Obviously, I need to do that more often.

It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.

I tell kids to be as passionate about your education as you are about anything else in life.

Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my schoolwork and my skating.

I'm so focused that sometimes I feel like I don't need to eat.