Quotes About Mentality

A happy home wasn't a place that I could furnish, but an attitude of mind I must develop.

The man himself was pitiably inferior in mentality and language alike; but his glowing, titanic visions, though described in a barbarous disjointed jargon, were assuredly things which only a superior or even exceptional brain could conceive.

The fanaticism of the elite cadres, absolutely essential for the functioning of the movement, abolishes systematically all genuine interest in specific jobs and produces a mentality which sees every conceivable action as an instrument for something entirely different.

As far as coming out on top with the right mentality and it molding you into the best human being you can be, I think that's what Brooklyn did for me. I became an All-Star, I got to touch the playoffs. To get a piece of that, I'm forever thankful.

There are lots of mentally very tough players that I have played against and with.

When you look at what we want our individual player to represent from that makeup, if you will, we're looking for mentally and physically tough players who are smart and want to compete. And when you say smart, you're talking about situational awareness. Guys that are instinctual. That are smart football players.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

People tell me all the time you have to be mentally tough to win the championship, and I feel like enough people hype it up to where you have to act different come playoff time. But I'm not a tough guy. So I don't know how to be tough. I don't know what I'm 'supposed' to be doing.

I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things.

I have played against many players, but I will always consider Lee Chong Wei as my toughest competitor.

That's the toughest part about coaching, I think, is that the longer you're in it, the more winning becomes, 'Phew, I'm glad we won,' and the losing is like just the most brutal thing ever.

I knew I was in charge when with the ball. But on the toughest defenders I faced, I would say that my African brothers were the ones. We have the same mentality and thought the same way. Osei Kuffour was the toughest of them all.

If someone wants to shout at me and tell me I'm bowling badly, that's fine. I may not agree but it's fine. It's part of the experience of being a touring cricketer.

The knockout games of a major tournament are when you see players' true characters.

You will often see a young player have something of a hangover following a major tournament.

During a tournament, I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I'm in scoring mode.

When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

I don't like to come to tournaments, like, one week before, because I just need, like, a few days, and then I'm ready to go for it.

Germany are a tournament team. I don't know why that is, perhaps the mentality. We always look forward to tournaments. We also believe we can always perform well.

To win a Grand Slam, you have to win seven matches in a row, and it's very different physically and mentally from other tournaments.

Your life must be a progression towards ownership - first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.

I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality.

I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.