Quotes About Mental

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

Love is a serious mental disease.

He was a habit in my thoughts, not any more welcome than a rash, but I'd find myself thinking of him before I even realized what I was doing. Banishing him from my thoughts was like learning to breathe in a new way. it was a conscious effort.

The effort to separate the physical experience of childbirth from the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of this event has served to disempower and violate women.

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

warned me that the tenuous balance that exists in my brain is easily set off kilter, but like everything else he said

Science has demonstrated that some athletes have a higher tolerance for pain and suffering than others do, and that those who have a higher tolerance are more accepting of these sensations.

Achieve complete mastery of his mind by pushing back the limits of his capacity to suffer until those limits disappeared.

Your physical capacities are only part of the big picture," he told the gathering. "If your spirit is happy and strong, then you're stable under pressure.

Physical fitness determines where the wall that represents your physical limit is placed. Mental fitness determines how close you are able to get to that limit in competition.

If you accept as fact that the only limitations you ever encounter in your sport are mental, then you will become a better fire walker, creeping closer to your unreachable physical limit than you would otherwise

Better athletes don't have to exert as much mental effort to control their sport-specific movements, so their movements are freer.

Even most training errors, such as overtraining, originate in the fear of suffering.

In a race, the job of the muscles is to perform. The job of the mind is to cope.

The muscles can only perform to the degree that the mind is able to cope. Endurance sports are therefore a game of "mind over muscle.

My own term for a highly developed overall coping capacity in endurance sports is mental fitness.

Anxiety takes away all the commas and full stops we need to make sense of ourselves.

He wrote me a prescription for more diazepam and advised I take things "one day at a time," as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

When it comes to our minds, awareness is very often the solution itself.

Well, honesty gets you locked up in a psych ward.

I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.

But, as C.S. Lewis once put it, 'The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say "My tooth is aching" than to say "My heart is broken".