Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.
Well, obviously, as soon as I’d finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
Being mentally tough is having to battle those demons and push yourself out of your comfort zone and force yourself to be the person that your mind is telling you you aren’t.
I was one of the main guys on my team and you always want to check people that you’re bringing in. Are they tough enough physically and mentally? Can they respond when you need them to respond?
My father was a rather active guy, and he was often engaged in something if not physically, then mentally.
Once you’re labeled as mentally ill, and that’s in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.
You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it’s like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, ‘Is this really going to end?
I think that I’m so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.
I didn’t know what I was getting into when I went vegan, but so many things changed. I shed 30 pounds. I felt better. I was doing better mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I was healing myself from the inside out.
Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.
Solo parenting is harder than Premier football. It’s mentally tough.
There’s something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.
There has been so many good questions, like, When a bad play happens in a match, how do you not mentally go down?’ Or, How have you had your career last for so long?’ There have been a lot of intriguing questions, which has led to a lot of other good conversations.
I had some rainy days, I didn’t handle those rainy days. I walked out without an umbrella sometimes. I’m going to be more mentally prepared for my downs, because there are going to be ups and downs.
One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.
When you’re doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
The most important thing is to be mentally ready.
Until your mid-twenties, you’re still growing up mentally. It’s fair to say there’s a bigger difference between twenty and twenty-five than between twenty-five and forty in terms of who you are, how you relate to your work, and what you want out of it.
Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women’s tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.
It’s easier to sit at your desk and have a bun, but I’ve been really disciplined because I feel like I have to give myself a chance. You can’t let yourself down on that. You have to be mentally sharp in this Premier League.
Some people are physically or mentally challenged. I’m emotionally challenged!
When I was playing for Chelsea and Arsenal, we had a young team but also experienced players. You still have space for the youngsters to play, they just have to be strong mentally to compete every week.
I just want people to know I’m mentally strong.
Fans are fans. They’re the same everywhere. Not just NBA. It’s so easy for them to say something. And we are living in a world where people want to tear you down mentally.
When you win a big title like the French Open, it’s tough. The emotion in doing this is really up and down. Afterwards, you feel a little bit lonely, a bit of depression mentally. Because it’s so much stress and emotion, so many people around – and then it’s completely empty.
I think I’ve always been regarded as a mentally strong person and a tough character, but it took me a while to reach a point where I realised that internalising your emotions wasn’t doing me any good.
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.
When teams see coach Gruden and myself run out on the field, they know, ‘Hey, man, we are in for it mentally today.’
Over the years, there’s been some cases where people did come up who said they were healed, but really they were not healed. I do believe it’s possible for individuals to mentally convince themselves they are, but that does not deny the real healings. That doesn’t dismiss the fact that a lot of people are really cured.
Every bit of knowledge we have demonstrates that there is a complete correlation between playing sports and success and potential for success. Playing sports is good for you physically, mentally, spiritually, psychologically.
I guess I would ideally want to be 20 physically, but 40 mentally.
I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
I don’t like any tape on my body, so I’m just trying to figure out what works best for me mentally, and for my wrist as well. We have to try and tape my wrist a different way every single practice to find a way.
I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.
I don’t believe for a second ‘X Factor’ would deliberately put someone through who wasn’t mentally stable.
I’m just tired of people saying I’m a self-hating Jew because I’m critical of Israel or make fun of old Jewish ladies. I do not hate myself. And Jews who criticize Israel aren’t necessarily mentally ill.
I went from being one of the best players, batting .550, to not being able to do it mentally, hitting .200. I thought I was mentally tough. But I couldn’t hit the ball.
After that I couldn’t show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.
If I’m not on the court, I have to be there to cheer my teammates on and from the sideline be there mentally and keep guys locked in and focused.
I don’t think it’s been healthy what I’ve done in my life to get to where I am mentally and otherwise, but it is the path I’ve chose. I’m not married, no family, and my hobbies are my loves.
Yeah, if I’m fried mentally, incapable of directing for a second, Ross is there and will take over. Or at least, together we can somehow manage make it through the day.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Just living is not enough, one must have sunshine too. And one can achieve that only when we make sure that our workplace is friendly and mentally fit for us.
There isn’t a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it’s not there.
I’m always thinking and so even if I’m not on the golf course I’m mentally thinking.
There is no formula for winning any show. One just has to be at ease and mentally stable.
When you know where you want to go, you’re mentally tough.
I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.
One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally too inexperienced to cope comfortably in the pressure cooker of an Olympic year.
You can’t play this game without being fit, and without being mentally fit and ready.
If you’re injured, it’s always mentally hard.
I’m excited by challenging myself physically and mentally every day.
I am able to mentally block out mistakes.
Everyone says Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi, but I would have love to have played with Luka Modric. I think he’s an incredible player, really strong mentally and a pure footballer.
Test cricket tests you physically and skill-wise, but also mentally. And you have to be solid on all three to do well.
The World War I, I’m a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it’s like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.
There is nothing compassionate about abandoning the mentally ill to the streets and making the rest of us live in their bedlam.
