Sam Allardyce Quotes

To concentrate intensely for 4 and a half hours, that's too hard for me. Too tiring. I concentrate 'lo maximo' on the 'golpe,' the stroke, but between strokes I'm interacting with the crowd or laughing with my caddie, talking about the spectators, the cute girls.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

If you stop now and start to realise what you have achieved, then you start to relax, and you start to lose. I don't think about everything I have achieved. I will do it when I retire because then I will have a lot of days to remember.

To break the mark definitely showed me I'm on the right track.

For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.

It's good when you're getting points - you're obviously feeling confident.

My main focus is on my game.

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.

Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they're so absorbed with what they're doing.

I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month. Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it's not to keep trying to be the best. That's not necessarily human nature.

I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.

In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.

I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.

Anytime you get attention for something, you want to keep doing it.

I think I do a pretty good job of not letting things distract me from what I want to do and what I want to accomplish as a football player.

It's been a massive confidence booster to know the managers picking you each game in a position where you're playing well. It gives you a lot of belief that you're doing the right things.

A lot of people talk about records, but you can get lost as a player if you think too much about them.

I'm not going to sit on my laurels.

I love giving myself and my clients gold stars every day that they've completed a workout - it feels really good.

My only focus is on our games and my performances - they are the most important things.

So many people get content. So many people stop when they're at the top. They'll let someone take their place because they're relaxing. That's not going to happen.

Perhaps I should just motivate myself by buying trophy cabinets - so I have to fill them.

Just because I bought some jewelry and things I've always wished for and always wanted, it doesn't mean I'm not focused. It doesn't mean that I'm not hungry anymore.

I'm pretty lazy. My wife always says, "you're the laziest, most successful Olympian I've ever seen." How does that make sense? Honestly, if I have downtime, I'm really, really good at not doing anything.

Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.