Quotes About Mental

The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally.

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

If a team intimidate you physically and you let them, they've won.

Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.

I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.

People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ...let my body do what it knows

In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

None of us, I think, in the mid-'70s … would have thought we'd be devoting so much mental space now to confront religion. We thought that matter had long been closed. — Ian McEwan

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..