Pete Rose Quotes

My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.

Clarity affords focus.

If your feet are in Fresno, Calif., that's where your head needs to be. That's where your mind needs to be. You don't need to be thinking about anything else other than the next game you're going to play.

When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

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

When I fight I try to empty my mind... I only see that moment, nothing else matters.

It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.

I just want to concentrate on my rugby and enjoy it and live in the moment.

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

I don't want anything to get in the way of me and my singing. I want my mind as clear as possible.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

The next point - that's all you must think about.

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

Other people can think ahead all they want. I just focus on the task at hand and try to move on.

One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

If I'm doing a scene that requires a lot of focus, I'll just take myself away and do what I have to do.

One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of cricket, that involvement of myself - mind, body and spirit - to delivering that one specific process, which is to execute a cricket shot. It is a beautiful feeling; it is very hard to replicate.

You play this sport in the mind, not only on the field.