Quotes About Mental

Tennis is a big puzzle. It's not any more physical or mental; you have to have all the pieces first, and then you have to put all the pieces together. For me, it took me time.

Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.

It's not only about a game and tennis, but it's more about the mental things sometimes.

Everyone knows how to play tennis, but it's the mind that really controls everything.

The mental part of the game, being able to free up on the tennis court, is much easier said than done.

If I weren't a tennis player, I'd probably be a psychologist.

There is so much that goes in to being a good tennis player. It's not just what you can do well on the court, it's between the ears as well.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

Short term memory is not good.

For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

I definitely believe our coaches are now leading more and learning more. They are hungry in terms of getting the athletes to improve. I believe it's now more mental than anything else, and I'd like to assist in that area.

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.

I'd say that in place of a singular phobic-level terror, I keep a whole collection of running, yet manageable, fears.

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

I get really aggravated if I don't train, if I don't let that testosterone out.

You know, in pressure games everyone tests your skills on and off the field.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

They always say baseball is 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical, whatever that saying is. I don't even think I know it. But this game is already a game of failure. Going into it not feeling good, battling whatever injuries, tests you even more.

Genetic research shows that the medical model is all wrong when it comes to psychological problems.

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

Prior to my breakdown I went through a 5 week manic phase, with increasing mental excitation, decreasing sleep, and a near certainty that I wa sthe first person to actually understand what Ludwig Wittgenstein was actually saying.

Prior to being medicated, a depressed person has no known chemical imbalance.

It is thoughts that make all the difference between the stillness of sleep and the turmoil upon waking.