For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.
For the most part I consider myself a mentally strong player.
If we are going to get serious about ‘gun violence’ we should get serious about facing the facts of the violent mentally ill.
So long as I can stay mentally alert – inquiring, curious – I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don’t want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I’m just not ready to stop, to die.
Tennis is a tough sport – a long year, a lot of matches, a lot of travelling. It’s not easy so being mentally tough is a big attribute. It doesn’t come easy, you have to work on it.
Anytime where you’re challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.
We’ve got to be right mentally – to stay focused and not get carried away if results go our way.
Golf is about power and balance, and it’s the same in fighting. If you have confidence in your physicality, you’re going to be mentally strong.
We need to keep examining evilness. For instance, I’m totally against the fact that Osama bin Laden was shot. I think that he should have been put on trial and exposed as that human being he was. I think he should’ve been standing mentally naked in front of the rest of us and stand to justice for what he did.
Gymnastics, for me, gave me a lot of self-pride: that drive to want to be great at something for myself. But it also gave me a sense of appreciation toward God. Now that I’m getting older, I really appreciate the talents God gave me. Not just physically, but mentally and emotionally.
Mentally, I could fight forever. I feel I’m the best fighter on the planet. My mind says I can fight forever, but physically, I won’t be able to do it.
The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.
God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.
When I’m on really tough golf courses, I feel like I’m more focused because I’m really trying to hit the ball to a certain spot, instead of, a lot of times, when I struggle sometimes is just staying mentally focused on every shot.
Routine is important to me and keeps me mentally and physically healthy.
Acting tough is all about developing an attitude and a persona that says, ‘Look at how great I am.’ But often, that tough exterior is meant to hide self-doubt. Mentally strong people invest more energy into working on their weaknesses rather than trying to cover them up.
It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
I changed in a lot of ways, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.
Trump did not reverse a policy that allows the mentally ill to purchase firearms as reporters, media pundits and anti-Second Amendment activists have recklessly claimed. Instead, he’s given millions of individuals their constitutional rights back.
People don’t realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.
Wai Lin is the first Bond Girl who is on a par with Bond, someone who can match up with him mentally and physically. From the moment our characters see each other, there is a wariness and a recognition that this person is not who she or he seems to be.
And physically and mentally, there were times when Newcastle first sent me out on loan, where I felt I was getting bullied. I was used to Under-23s football, tiki-taka, but in the lower leagues, it’s about results and putting yourself about.
Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child’s problems.
I really enjoyed playing Yannick Noah – he was and still is my favourite. In the heat of the moment he was very fair and very physical. He was strong, big and he moved unbelievably well. He was also mentally tough.
Mentally, it’s good for me to fight in Japan.
I think one of the hardest things to do in the league is not having a great year, but it’s having a better year when you had a great year. All the attention is going to be on you, all the pressure is going to be on you. The challenge you’re going to have is more mentally than anything else.
America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It’s grotesquely mentally ill.
You take the experience, and now it’s a matter of preparing yourself mentally and physically so that in the future if you find yourself in situations like that, you’re able to succeed.
Unless they’re a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we’re not against them buying guns at all.
It’s harder to score well in a slow round. The tendency is to overthink shots while you’re waiting and become mentally exhausted. Instead, chat with your playing partners about anything but golf. Concentrate on each shot for no more than a minute. You’ll stay fresh.
I think, mentally, you sometimes need a break. But for me, my body is built so that if I don’t work out, that’s when I put more stress on my body and get more tired.
Kane dons the mask because he is horribly disfigured, unstable, mentally insane and crazy, so I thought it would basically look like he had escaped from an institution. Then, I get the creative for the costume, and it looked like a superhero.
Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.
In the 1960s, I was convinced that the world was extremely mentally ill.
In order to play this game, at one point in your life you’ve got to be a little mentally deranged. And every once in a while, you’ve got to call upon that sickness and make it work for you.
When there’s somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody’s right next to me and they’re pushing and we’re both tired, we’re both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.
Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.
A fighter in his prime needs to stay active. A fighter, who doesn’t have certainty when he’s going to fight again, it’s hard for him to stay mentally ready.
I’m mentally drained even when I’m just sitting on the bench and not playing.
For decathletes, our event goes all throughout the day so you’re trying to go up and down and up and down emotionally and physically and you know mentally you’re just on a roller coaster.
I’m trying to do things that help keep me mentally healthy, and if that includes making music, then great. But I won’t lie – there are days when I just watch a show and eat a packet of cookies.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.
I’m strong mentally and I’m confident I can beat anyone out there.
You get mentally fatigued and you get physically fatigued, too. Usually that’s when bad things happen on the ice and then you’re more at risk for injury.
We’re so trained to be ‘mentally tough,’ in sports.
A lot of people don’t realise how mentally tough the Premier League is.
As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.
Fitness for me is wellness. It means being healthy – mentally and physically.
I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist.
I love being in the band, I love being that person and it’s such a beautiful and ridiculous adventure but that has an effect mentally, good and bad, just from being the age we were.
If I stay mentally right during a game, then I feel like I can be up there with the best.
Being mentally strong is something I’ve always been very good at and sometimes you just have to dig a bit deeper.
We are human beings, you need to mentally switch off now and again to refresh your body and mind. But I never just lie on the couch in my downtime, I still keep my body in good shape.
I think the game is so mental. If you sit around and you’re mentally strong, you’re ready.
