Quotes About Mental

I clear my mind; I don't think about the pressure before a fight. I focus on going in the cage and being successful while doing my job.

I was having anxiety attacks, calling ambulances out and saying I was having a heart attack, as there was something weird going on with my body and mind.

In football, it's not enough just to be amazing, but you also have to have a clear head. If you're not calm, it becomes very difficult.

I always eat the same thing on game day, or I read a book to calm myself.

I have something called exercise bulimia, which is where you rid of your calories by over-exercising.

Going in with one of the best middleweights, I can take experience and the mental capacity to know I can and do belong, and bring a mental edge you can have every time in the ring.

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.

It's tough to win major championships. So many things and emotions go through your mind.

If you don't work your brain turns to cheese.

I don't know whether endurance sports attract obsessional people, or training for endurance sports makes people obsessional... it's the chicken and the egg.

I am pretty chill before games. Have a go-to routine that keeps me busy until we are ready to take the court so I'm not just sitting around anxious for the game.

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world.

I actually rid myself of superstitions, but I do a quick 20-minute meditation before games.

I am not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in mental preparation.

I am not a big supporter of sledging or insults that are hurled at you. But I don't mind if a bowler glares or stares at the batsmen. During my career, I have faced these situations numerous times.

Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!

I suppress stress to the point where it will force its way through my skin in the form of a large angry pimple because that's the only channel it has.

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

If I lose a match, I don't get sad or feel down. But if I lose a close match, I surely have sleepless nights.

Every patient of mine who undergoes surgery has to see a psychologist first.