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Quotes About Challenges

Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly - because it's sort of like you're supposed to once you become a wife and mother. That's a generalization; that's what the mentality has been.
~ Susan Kelechi Watson
Luke Walton was the worst coach ever for Lonzo 'cause he had a losing mentality.
~ LaVar Ball
When I was a player the mentality was black people would make good players but weren't captain material or managerial material. That stereotyping existed.
~ Chris Hughton
I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
~ Dannel Malloy
I've always been mentally tough. Believe me, you have to be that way when you've been an Old Firm player living in Glasgow.
~ Charlie Adam
After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.
~ Kenzaburo Oe
I've never felt so physically and emotionally and mentally drained than I have on our shoots.
~ Michelle Zauner
My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is.
~ Shane Warne
There are a lot of very good juniors who have a very high level, but mentally, they're not quite there yet.
~ Denis Shapovalov
It's been so difficult to go from playing every game then get to the seniors and not be given a chance. It's really difficult mentally. There's only so long you just enjoy training with top players.
~ Ruben Loftus-Cheek
Obviously, it was tough for me, coming from high school and being that guy who was always playing and then having to sit and wait my turn... Mentally, it was taxing.
~ Shaquem Griffin
I felt, when I was 20, I wasn't quite ready for the physical contact of 82 games. Mentally, it was tough. I forgot what city we were in most of the time. I can't even imagine going through it at 18 or 19.
~ Dirk Nowitzki
We get older, we get more mature and stronger mentally. You learn to deal with different situations.
~ Samir Nasri
Mentally, you have to be strong, particularly in away games at the places where the fans are very passionate.
~ Park Ji-sung
Centre-back takes more out of you mentally than physically.
~ Jamie Carragher
There's a lot of reasons I didn't perform the way I could have in college. Going to college, I was a new parent, I lived in another state. I just wasn't mentally into it when I was in college.
~ Rashad Evans
I've always prided myself on being mentally tough, but just because you're mentally tough doesn't mean that what's going on between your ears is always good things.
~ Michael Chiesa
I just want to continue to build mentally to push forward even on the good days and bad days.
~ Jae Crowder
I think one of the hardest things to do in the league is not having a great year, but it's having a better year when you had a great year. All the attention is going to be on you, all the pressure is going to be on you. The challenge you're going to have is more mentally than anything else.
~ Ricky Rubio
I have learnt so much and I feel mentally strong. At the same time, there is so much competition at present and I feel that I have to deliver at least one hit every year.
~ Nithiin
There is nothing compassionate about abandoning the mentally ill to the streets and making the rest of us live in their bedlam.
~ Miranda Devine
Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.
~ Persis Khambatta
The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
~ Pankaj Mishra
There was a point where people would mention that I was black everyday.
~ Lil Tracy