Self-Focus Quotes

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

I actually like working out. It's such a stress reliever when you're just focusing on yourself and not thinking about anything else except the music and your body.

When I was younger, I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I think I'd probably shine really well in a team sport, but as everybody knows, I don't handle politics very well. A lot of team sports has a lot of politics. Individual sports, it's all about me.

I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

I only listen to myself, I hate to say. I don't got time to listen to nobody else. There's a lot of guys out there, but I only listen to myself.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don't see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

I don't want to be in a relationship for the same reason I don't want a kid: I don't want anything in my life to be more important than me.

I don't really pay enough attention to what other people are doing.

I'm not doing anything for anybody. I'm doing what I do.

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.

When I'm in there I'm just in my zone. What people think about when they're looking at me, that's their business. If there is a bit of that, I am fine with it, each to his own.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

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.

I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.

In general, the spotlight has been on me.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.