Marc Gasol Quotes

As a player, it's important to focus on the here and now.

Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.

Harnessing the power of the present means having your full awareness on the task at hand and having access to the possibilities, the opportunities, and the support that exists right now.

I'm about the present.

My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time... I only see what is front of me.

I look at what's in front of me. I concentrate on that and then hopefully move on.

Take each day as it comes and focus on the present moment.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

Confine yourself to the present.

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

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

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.

The moment is everything. Don't think about tomorrow; don't think about yesterday: think about exactly what you're doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it.

If I do a bad dive, that's in the past. Move on. The next dive is a completely separate thing. It's just about being really present in a particular moment.

There's something to be said about living in the present moment. In cooking, you're allowing your mind to just focus on the task at hand, and you're able to escape and put your mind at rest. That's why it becomes meditative.

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.

The single guiding principle that I try to follow, assuming blindly that the rest will fall into place, is to operate squarely in the present. I think it's one of the most difficult things for anyone to do.

You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

I live in the present.

I like to be present; I like to be in the now. The way life has shaped up, it is difficult, you know, with mobile phones taking you to another time and space all the time. So it's always a battle to stay in the moment. But according to me, it's a better way to be.

Usually, when I give talks, I'm 100% there, 100% present.