Andrew Strauss Quotes

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

My main focus is ball. I know what butters my toast. I know what my job is and what is expected of me, and that's what's first and foremost.

I look at it somewhat as a way - when you learn juggling, what you learn is how to feel with your eyes and see with your hands because you're not looking at your hands, you're looking at where the balls are, or you're looking at the audience.

I don’t want people chitting and chatting. Once the game starts, we watch football.

You've got to catch the ball.

I try and watch the ball closely. I've played the game for many years now, and I know my talent will take over if I just watch the ball and enjoy myself out there.

As players, we have to concentrate with what happens on the pitch, not off it.

I think a lot of people fail to work on their sight, even though it's probably one of the most important sides to tennis. It's also about reactions and concentration and focus, and I think it's all very closely related.

During the game, you don't really notice how many guys have touched the ball because you're just focusing on where you need to be.

There is so much that goes in to being a good tennis player. It's not just what you can do well on the court, it's between the ears as well.

If you don't concentrate during a national team match you can just as easily get injured, so I want to make sure I can focus.

The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.

If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.

He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.

To catch a ball, I'd commit suicide.

The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.

Where your attention goes, you go.

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

Hitting a ball dead perfect - the only peace.

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

She kept watching the words.

If I'm improvising and I'm not doing well it's because I'm not listening very well. Either I'm overly concerned with something or I'm drifting or maybe I'm too stoned but I'm not getting a clear signal.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.