Mental Toughness Quotes

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  • Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

    Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011
  • 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.

    Football   Team   Winning  
    "Leftovers from Tom Brady interview" by Field Yates, www.espn.com. May 23, 2013.
  • It takes energy, mental toughness and spiritual reinforcement to successfully deal with life's opportunities, and to reach your objectives.

    FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 13, 2014
  • I've got a couple of things over [ Wladimir Klitschko]: He wouldn't spar with me when I went to the camp and I beat him in a mental toughness competition in the sauna.

    Source: www.mirror.co.uk
  • Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

    Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.

  • Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

    "Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.com.
  • Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.

    Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher
  • Mental toughness is essential to success.

    Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”
  • It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

  • I found that to build mental toughness, you need to inconvenience yourself. The early morning runs, if you hate early mornings. The late night runs, if you hate late nights. The snowy cold, the worst conditions you can get, put yourself in those and really make it inconvenient and you start to get a genuine expectation of winning for the price you have to pay.

    Running   Morning   Hate  
  • Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.

    Fighting   Mma   Guy  
    Forrest Griffin, Erich Krauss (2009). “Got Fight?: The 50 Zen Principles of Hand-to-Face Combat”, p.19, Harper Collins
  • Fighting teaches you a lot about yourself. When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways and makes you realise how mentally tough you have to be as a fighter. This mental toughness will transfer into your everyday life, giving you drive and a clear concise attitude, where giving up is not an option

  • Mental toughness is Spartanism, with all its qualities of self-denial, sacrifice, dedication, fearlessness, and love.

    Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, McGraw-Hill Education
  • I think we've bounced back and really been resilient. Even after a bad period, we take over and we seem like we're on a mission. That comes with leadership and experience and a lot of things. A lot of it is mental toughness and resiliency in the situation you're at, just trusting in your teammates.

  • People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.

  • I run to see who has the most guts.

    Sports   Running   Track  
  • It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

    Fear   Light   Rays  
    "Essays, First Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.
  • What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

  • A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

    Bullying   Fear   Play  
  • If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

    Heart   Guy   Lucky  
    Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

  • We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity.

    Team   Adversity   Hockey  
  • I wish I could say someone taught me my mental toughness, it would have been a lot less painful.

  • Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

    "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
  • Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

    Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
  • Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

    Funny   Witty   Humorous  
    Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.14, Open Road Media
  • Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

    Basketball   Team   Nba  
    "An Open Letter to White NFL Players" by Rae Witte, www.complex.com. October 10, 2016.
  • Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances.

  • It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

    'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'
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