Athlete Quote by Julia Leigh Download Open image “The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.” — Julia Leigh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athlete Concentration Elite athletes Focus Sports Writing
Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet. — Edwin Moses Copy Share Image
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“In fact their strength, as with over-specialized athletes, is the result of a deformity. I thought it was the same with people who were selected for trying to get high grades in a small number of subjects rather than follow their curiosity: try taking them slightly away from what they studied and watch their decomposition, loss of confidence, and denial.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share
People who become 'elite' at what they do aren't striving to be 'elite' just to join some special club. They take great joy and… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete. — Dick Fosbury Copy Share Image
“I have explained many times that I am, by Profession, a Gambler -- not some jock-sniffing nerd or a hired human squawk-box with the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused… — Chungliang Al Huang Copy Share Image
“If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough. The other view is a lie of literature and the liberal arts, which is why I did not succeed as a teacher, and another reason I put… — Richard Ford Copy Share
If you take the autobiographies of great sports people, they are almost always the same. They start with zero; they are always ambitious, know… — Petr Cech Copy Share Image
I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
“Dark here comes quickly. He undresses and slips into his silky cold sleeping bag. Up above, the clouds mask the stars and the moon… — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
Work infuses my whole life. My creative life is my real life, so it's hard to separate. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
I think patients and doctors alike minimise the physical, emotional, and financial toll of IVF. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley Copy Share Image