Focus On Self Quotes

You need to sweat yourself. Don't sweat nobody else.

I can't control what people think of me. I can't control any of that. I can only control what I do on the field.

I'm not up in the front office or anything; I just control what I can control: playin' ball and playin' the best I can play.

You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

Whoever wants to be caught up in my life, first of all, you should be living yours because I'm damn sure not worried about your life.

For me, I've learned that the best thing is to focus on the team you play for and yourself and what you need to do.

Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.

I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.

I have my method when it comes to my work. I don't think about who has done what, rather what I am doing is of utmost importance to me.

It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it.

Don't focus on the negativity. Focus on the positivity and the people that want you to do well; then, do it for them and for yourself. Sometimes I do things for myself. Sometimes I do things for my family. Sometimes I do things for my friends.

That's usually the way I am - I don't care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.'

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see how far they've come. The only thing that counts is how we use the potential we possess and that we run our race to the best of our abilities.

I can only control the way I play.

Strive to be the very best you can be. Run the race against yourself and not the guy in the other lane. The reason I say that is, as long as you give it 110% you are going to succeed. But as long as you're trying to beat the guy over there, you are worried about him; you're not worrying about how you've got to perform.

I can only control what happens day to day and that's me coming out here and doing my job to the best I can.

Doesn't matter what people say, doesn't matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.

As a quarterback, you have to have a short memory. Don't lose your confidence, and stay within yourself. Don't try to do too much.

But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.

It doesn't matter who I'm facing. I'm concentrating on myself.

I believe in controlling the control elements. Something where we don't have control on certain things, those things you obviously cannot waste your energy in trying to figure out 'How can I control this?' You would much rather focus all your energy on the things that you can control.

When you're competing, you need to be selfish. You need to think of yourself first.