Top 25 Mental Toughness Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Mental Toughness Quotes from famous people such as Tom Brady, Stefon Diggs, Sean McVay, Jamal Murray, Bill Russell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.
Tom Brady
I believe in my ability and my mental toughness. I know I can pick up a playbook, like anybody can, and I can compete with anybody.
Stefon Diggs
You show me anybody that’s great in anything they do, I’ll show you somebody that’s persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity.
Sean McVay
Well, my dad did a lot of Kung Fu when I was growing up, so he taught me a lot about mental toughness. Ways to slow your heart rate down, slow your breathing down to take control of your body so you can push yourself to the next limit.
Jamal Murray
Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.
Tom Brady
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
Bill Russell
If you have mental toughness then on days when you go to Hull, the pitch is bobbly, the wind howling, you end up with something. It’s as much about that as silky soccer.
Steve Nicol
If you’re running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness.
Robert Kraft
From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.
Ashton Eaton
CrossFit really helped me with mental toughness, which I really appreciate. It also gave me this network of people cheering me on, which is incredible.
Lauren Gibbs
I’ve obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I’m better for it.
Gerrit Cole
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.
John Bytheway
I like to push my body to just extremity to get past the mental toughness barriers. So fighting at 145, that would be great. If Kenny Florian can do it, I can do it.
Tony Ferguson
The mental focus it takes to compete against the best players in the world is not easy to maintain. Developing mental toughness is a learned trait, and if you can’t develop it in your pursuit of success, you likely won’t last in any competitive line of work for more than a cup of coffee.
Jason Witten
I feel like mental toughness has been a huge part.
Sofia Kenin
Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‘How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?’
David Goggins
The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It’s the mental toughness.
Edward Zwick
I believe in my ability and my mental toughness.
Stefon Diggs
My aim is to play Test matches. For me, there is a different feel of Test cricket as it tests your character. You come to know about your mental toughness, and most importantly, there is another level of satisfaction as a player.
Suresh Raina
In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.
William Baldwin
As a goalkeeper, you’ve got to have mental toughness, and that’s one thing I’m good at.
Jordan Pickford
Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
Vince Lombardi
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
Bobby Knight
Legs and athleticism are worth nothing without mental toughness. You also need to be stubborn.
Gonzalo Higuain
The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.
David Goggins