Anthony Martial Quotes

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

You have to listen to the anthems, allow the emotion to come, but then need to snap back into the match and your specific task.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.

I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.

Anytime you put your mind on the results, you lose something in the moment.

My toughest opponent is me. My mind has a tendency to wander during bouts. I tend to focus on things other than the bout. I have to work at staying motivated, getting my head right.

When we allow distractions to wobble us away from ourselves, that's when our intuition starts to fade and our focus dulls.

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

There are always distractions, if you allow them.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.

I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

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

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

We know even from ordinary life that we have to achieve a sufficient degree of attentiveness if we want to concentrate on an inner picture or an object of some kind; we must also have it in our power, though, to turn our soul away from something we have been concentrating on.