"Ignore the noise." -Bill Belichick
“Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.” -Bill Russell
“Concentrate all your thoughts on the great desire in your life. This concentration must be continuous, unceasing — every minute; every hour; every day; every week.” -Charles E. Popplestone
“Concentrate...for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.” -Orison Swett Marden-
“You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.” –Bobby Jones
“A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.” –Bobby Jones
“Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don’t think it’s the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness – just concentrating in that one area – that’s what it takes to be a champion.” -Chris Evert
“Don’t look back—something might be gaining on you.” –Satchel Paige
“If you have something floating around in your head and it is not a vision that you desire for this precious season of your life, then that collection of thoughts is ‘mental clutter.’” -Kevin Elko
"The first law of success is concentration - to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right or to the left." -William Mathews
“The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.” –Harry A. Overstreet
“Drive the players to concentrate. Be assertive in your insistence that they focus on the task at hand.” –Bill Walsh
"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary." -Ray Knight
“To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.” –Bertrand Russell
"You know, there are so many things you (players) do wrong that you can correct yourself if you just concentrate." –Bob Knight
“Remember, each of us has a finite amount of energy, and things you do well don’t require as much. Things you don’t do well take more concentration. And if you’re fatigued by that, then the things you do best are going to be affected. You must let your energy flow to the team.” –Bill Russell
"There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength." -Pat Riley
“When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.”
-Michael Leboeuf
“To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.”
-Bertrand Russell
“Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.”
-Willie Sutton
“The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.”
-Og Mandino
“I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.”
-Virginia Woolf
“Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.”
-Samuel Johnson
“One arrow does not bring down two birds.”
-Turkish Proverb
“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
-Anthony Robbins
“Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.”
-Tom Kite
“Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve… the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point.”
-Orison Swett Marden
“Give whatever you are doing and whomever you are with the gift of your attention.”
-Jim Rohn
“The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.”
-Elbert Hubbard
“Ninety percent of my game is mental. It’s my concentration that has gotten me this far.”
-Christ Evert
“There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.”
-Pat Riley
