Unrelenting Focus Quotes

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

Michael, to me, he was an assassin. He was one of those guys that prepared himself extremely well and was relentless in his attacking. And there are a few guys who have that mentality. I think Kobe Bryant has that type of mentality, and LeBron has that type of mentality.

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

Those who are passionate about what they do have an advantage that is nearly impossible to overcome. In passion there is energy, creativity, resilience and persistence. Passion will get it done.

Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It's 'all-nighter' prayer. It just won't take 'NO' for an answer!

I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

The American lionization of the entrepreneur is to ignore its foibles - the narcissism, the workaholism, the neglect of family, the imbalance, the obsession. These are not universally good things, though they are frequently universal to building great companies.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

It is part of being a goalkeeper: there is nobody behind to save you.

Since I came on the tour so young and I won my first match, I've had a lot of comments like 'You'll be a top player one day.' I got to the point where, as nice as it was to hear that, I almost stopped listening to it. I was almost putting added pressure on myself.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

Our style of play is non-negotiable, but we also have to become ruthless serial winners.

If you don't have patience in this profession, you almost always end up getting bent out of shape expecting quick results.

I've got the mind-set that I'm going to play as hard as I can, and I'm going to make the person guarding me work as hard as he can.

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down.

I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.

I'm different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

Drogba has been our great motivator. He never stops reminding us that we are here to win the tournament, no matter the hurdles, no matter the game form and no matter the score margin.

My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

There is an absurd concentration on an election which never starts and never ends.

You have to be rather relentless about pushing other things out of the way. This activity of writing, which has no promises attached to it, comes to be given a kind of arbitrary but persistent importance.