Darts is more psychological than anything… staying mentally strong.
I don’t buy that there’s nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.
If you’re not ready mentally, it can hurt your team just as much physically.
You can’t wrestle forever. It’s a very physically taxing job. There’s no doubt about it. Physically, and more importantly, mentally.
In my opinion Test cricket is the best version of this game. It tests you mentally, physically, emotionally.
My approach to training changed dramatically throughout my experience as one of the trainers on ‘The Biggest Loser.’ Getting to know each person was an important reminder that to get the body physically fit, you must first get mentally and emotionally ‘fit.’
To be a supersub is mentally hard.
For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you’ll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you’ll have a bad day where you’re really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, ‘Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?’
It’s mentally hard. There are times when you’re set back again, and you don’t know what to do.
When I was in the GB Women’s football team at the 2012 Olympics, it was obvious who was in the first XI and who was making up the numbers. Kelly Smith was going to be first-choice striker no matter what, and the other forwards in the squad mentally checked out as a result.
My weight doesn’t really fluctuate, but I make sure I don’t eat late at night. It’s about making sure I’m right physically because mentally I’m OK.
I’ve always prided myself on being mentally tough, but just because you’re mentally tough doesn’t mean that what’s going on between your ears is always good things.
Acting is strenuous, both physically and mentally. But if you are passionate about it, nothing can be more exciting than acting.
The most important thing is to stay fresh – physically and mentally – and to also avoid injury of course.
I spend a fair bit of time in Los Angeles, and there is much I love about the place – the weather, the food, the beaches and the golf. And a few things I don’t. Like the way an enormous number of mentally ill people seem to be forced to live on the streets with little or nothing in the way of government assistance.
There is no one-size-fits-all process. It differs from character to character and priority to priority. Every project has a different priority, and you have to be agile enough physically as well as mentally to shift from one character to another. I think I am fairly decent in that.
I prefer just a women’s race. It’s a totally different game mentally.
You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
You can visualize, and you can try to trick yourself into thinking a certain way. There’s all kinds of things you can do to try to get in the right spot mentally. But at the end of the day, to have real confidence, you’ve got to be doing good at your craft.
I know it sounds silly, but no one really anticipates just how mentally and emotionally taxing and unbelievably physically grueling it is to be the Bachelor.
I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
I spent a lot of time denying the idea that I could be gay or trans to myself. From the ages of 14 to 16, I was mostly convinced that I was just going through ‘phases.’ I ran away mentally, especially at night with access to the Internet and the labyrinth of anonymous communications.
My physical preparation for a series starts at least 10, 15 days before it begins, but mentally around a month before I start visualising things as to which bowling attack I will be facing, the conditions I will encounter and other things.
I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we’re not totally shutting down, we’re all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.
Little by little, I keep growing mentally and my entire work team keep growing and working more professional, more organized.
As a competitor, you don’t want to use anything as an excuse. No matter how your body’s doing or how you’re feeling mentally, you should be able to find a way to get the job done.
Playing against Messi, as I’ve said before, is as tough a test of your concentration as any in football. At any moment, he can take the mickey out of you. Physically, it is demanding, but mentally even more so. You cannot switch off.
Many people ask, ‘What do you need mentally to succeed in F1?’ I say, ‘What do you mean mentally?’
I know that if I’m 100% mentally on, I’m tough to beat.
Very few artists are as independent as I am mentally, physically, spiritually and technically. I sit in my home studio and record things by myself. I don’t need to get anybody’s approval or validation.
In England, especially, mentally if you’re not strong it can eat you up. There’s the media, all the negativity surrounding footballers. If you’re not mentally strong, it can eat you.
I’m a very strong person, and I think that’s why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, ‘She had a nervous breakdown’ or ‘She’s not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.’
You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That’s what I’ve really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go hard.
I had many attempts to become No. 1, and it was really tough mentally to keep believing that it would happen one day, but then it was really tough to stay there because I felt the pressure at every tournament.
There were times when I struggled mentally and felt betrayed.
I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don’t have to do it physically.
For many years, I was not mentally ready for marriage.
We have mentally tough players coming out of Villanova.
If I do the same thing each year, that feels like I am sat on a shelf, and mentally that wouldn’t be wise.
When I was younger, I used to think it was kind of cool to abuse actors mentally, but I really disagree with that now.
If you have luck on your side and are strong mentally, you can succeed in Europe.
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
I feel like somehow I’m living my life mentally in reverse. It’s taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I’m going to be dancing on tables when I’m 50. I really hope I am.
We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better.
Physically, you never get used to the cold. It’s cold! If it’s cold, it’s cold! And you go out there, and your body feels it, but I think mentally, living in it, it’s not such a shock to you.
In World Series, everything is a bit slower than F1. But each time I sit in the car, whether it is World Series or F1, once I am in the cockpit, I am mentally prepared for what the car is. I don’t have to physically drive it to remember what it is doing.
I’m mentally agile.
No, I never go into a game with any doubts. I always feel confident in my ability, and hopefully I can be strong mentally.
As a two, you gotta see the guys I have to guard on a nightly basis, like Dwyane Wade, Kobe Bryant or J.R. Smith. I have to be mentally prepared and battle-tested.
I’m still angry at so much – class, gender, society, the way we are constantly mentally coerced into behaving a certain way without us even knowing it. I feel so oppressed by the weight of it all that I just want to blow a hole in it all.
Faced with the way the system does you in the ‘hood sometimes, if you don’t literally get out, your chances are slim. You’ll definitely die mentally. You’ll pretty much die physically.
I’m 30, but I feel mentally as good as I’ve ever felt and as far as throwing the ball and understanding the game, I feel great.
Some players aren’t able to show their ability in Europe, but some players can – I think the most important quality in the successful players is that they are mentally strong.
It’s okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
It took a lot for me to feel mentally stable after giving birth and, physically, my body felt torn apart.
Hair and makeup has become part of my pre-competition routine. It’s a quiet time, when I can reflect, I can put on some music – and I can mentally get in the zone of performance.
The ‘Demon King’ takes out a lot out of Finn Balor the man emotionally and mentally.
If you make one thing your life and soul – as much as football is my career and main focus – then it turns into a very mentally unstable place to be.
Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.
