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Quotes About Mental

I get so angry. I just go through so many different patches in a game. It's so hard for me to find that balance. It's a tug-of-war all the time.
~ Nick Kyrgios
It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.
~ Al Leiter
One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It's like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It's easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.
~ Nick Saban
I would say darts is probably 15 per cent throwing. The rest of it is mental strength. Being able to hold your nerve.
~ Rob Cross
If you are going to talk negative about a place, you're almost throwing yourself out to begin with because golf is a mental game.
~ Jordan Spieth
With 'Mental Jewelry,' we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to get something happening. I think we lost some of the personality in the music. 'Throwing Copper''s mission was to begin to get some of that back.
~ Ed Kowalczyk
I'm 30, but I feel mentally as good as I've ever felt and as far as throwing the ball and understanding the game, I feel great.
~ Brady Quinn
My technique is such that even if I turn my back on the throw, I understand what I have thrown and I start celebrating.
~ Neeraj Chopra
As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.
~ Joanna Lumley
I can make all the throws. My mental side is a strength as far as understanding defense schemes and our playbook. I'm able to change plays when needed. I think that sets me apart.
~ Carson Wentz
Everything is mental, but if you just remember to stay with your same technique, you will be fine. If you stay confident, make sure you are doing the same thing over and over; the free throws will fall.
~ Gilbert Arenas
I think free throws are harder because you have more time to think about it, and every eye is on you. When it's a trey, you catch and shoot.
~ Robert Horry
Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.
~ Ellsworth Huntington
Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.
~ Denise Van Outen
My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.'
~ Jane Pauley
The U.S. Open was a huge moment in my career. It was one of the biggest stages, and for me to be calm and collected throughout the week and just kind of hang on and tie for fifth was huge for me mentally.
~ Xander Schauffele
I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.
~ Michael Keaton
The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
We embody our worries. When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out.
~ Sakyong Mipham
in meditation, the mind will get stronger if we keep exercising our mindfulness.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind's strength, and awareness is its flexibility. Without these abilities, we cannot function. When we drink a glass of water, drive a car, or have a conversation, we are using mindfulness and awareness.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
~ Sallust
The renown that riches and beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
~ Sallust
Why do they call it a 'mental' illness? The pain isn't just in my head; it's everywhere, but mainly at my throat and in my heart. Perhaps my heart is broken.
~ Sally Brampton