Kevin Harvick Quotes

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.

When you are in this business and this career, it's hard for any one thing to engulf you.

I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.

I don't consider myself a great multitasker, so I try to do one thing at a time, even though there were opportunities when I was wrestling.

I think that is one thing I've picked up: follow a routine, be consistent, and everything is going to fall in place. If you are scrambling around, and you are late for stuff, that adds extra stress, and you have to go out there and hit a 97 mph fastball.

The challenging thing from a work perspective is just the range of things on any given day that you're dealing with and making sure you have the head space to really be giving them the thought and consideration you'd like, too.

You have to be able to shut out everything else, all the distractions and criticism. There's a lot of work that went on off the pitch, a lot of conversations, to make that happen.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.

We have to establish time boundaries and learn how to say no.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.

As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.