Jamie Vardy Quotes

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

Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.

I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break.

I think about work 24 hours a day. But when you fly a helicopter, for that hour or two you can't think about anything else.

Just put football first, or your job first. Give everything you've got all week, work hard, work super-hard to take it to the next level every week. And when you feel like you got to the point where you want to be, you definitely need the time to go out, relax, have a good time, take all the stress off it.

When a game comes around, that's the time to be serious. During the week, the training sessions are serious, but away from there, you have to relax and switch off.

My approach to games is much better and I am going into games with the right preparation and I am more relaxed, rather than thinking about things too much.

You find little ways to keep your mind at peace so that you can, at the end of the day, do the most important thing, which is do a good job.

Being able to step away from your work is big. Not even the actual work of sitting down and looking at game tape, but actually putting your job aside and focusing on other things. That's a big part of being successful in this league.

A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

When I'm relaxed, I play my best tennis.

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.

When you're a quarterback, and you're dropping back, I can't watch what the receivers are doing.

People who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it.

I can't imagine that having a child is good for your focus, because it's a tough industry. You have to be very focused. And once you're successful, you have to fight harder to stay on top.

When I'm playing football I'm switched off to everything else - it frees my mind.

The 'enemy' in golf is tension.

One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

When you are relaxed, you can focus a lot more easily than when you are hyper and over-energetic. It's important to be "up" for a competition, but you shouldn't have too much energy, because you might not be able to control it. In competitions, it is important to be able to bring the power and energy you are feeling down to a level that you can control. This comes with practice and experience.