Jake Arrieta Quotes

When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.

I can't let distractions get in the way.

I don't take pressure or keep expectations because then it becomes difficult to concentrate.

Just have to worry about making sure I'm playing my game and doing all that.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.

I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time.

I can't worry about techs. I've got to play my game.

As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.

During the playoffs, I tone down the Internet usage.

I was worrying about how Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood would get me out and how I would counter it, but in doing that forgot how I was going to score runs and put pressure on them, which is what I'm good at. I have to be more focussed on myself.

Look, I try to focus on the essentials, on the games. It is very good for me.

You've got to know what helps you be successful during the season.

I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.

The more emotional distractions you have the harder it is to accomplish your goals - especially at the extreme levels!

People who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it.

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy.

Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?