Be Mentally Tough Quotes

#1. I've always been mentally tough. Believe me, you have to be that way when you've been an Old Firm player living in Glasgow.

Charlie Adam

#2. I don't think it's tough to get there mentally. Your mind is saying, 'You know how to do this.' But your body doesn't always respond.

Sheryl Swoopes

#3. The one thing I learned about myself going back and watching tapes of all the losses that we've had is that I'm physically capable of doing this and dominating the game, but the mental part was not there. I don't know if it comes with age, but I had to learn to be mentally tough.

Lisa Leslie

#4. Her scar tissue, which she seems to amass both physically and mentally, may not be pretty, but they have become tougher than if she had never been wounded at all.

Donna Lynn Hope

#5. I used to get down on myself a lot if I missed a shot, and it would just break my focus. But now I stay mentally tough and try to just forget about that play and keep on going.

Antonio McDyess

#6. We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better.

Tony Parker

#7. 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.

Clint Eastwood

#8. I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

Lleyton Hewitt

#9. People are not born mentally tough. Mental toughness is developed by experience. Developing mental toughness is a very long process.

C.N. Reede

#10. The best way to become a mentally tough runner is to believe that you're a mentally tough runner

Ryan Hall

#11. I think that you have to prepare yourself mentally for show business, because it is such a tough world. You don't realize how hard it is until you're actually in it and you're actually on the show.

Carmen Rasmusen

#12. When I get on a course that's not very good, that's not tough, I fall asleep. Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.

Hollis Stacy

#13. If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

Pat Riley

#14. I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.

Dirk Nowitzki

#15. Acting is a tough business, and you need to be in good shape mentally and physically.

Juliette Binoche

#16. When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.

Maria Sharapova

#17. You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.

Larry Bird

#18. You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.

Amby Burfoot

#19. If you're not mentally tough,
If nerves undo you instead of focus you,
If you don't have the inner arrogance
That you absolutely have what it takes to win,
If you don't see, in your mind's eye,
A picture of yourself winning - then you won't win;
And not because you can't.

Summer Sanders

#20. If you look at anyone at the top of their profession, there has to be something a little bit different. Some of the top musicians are quirky aren't they, to say the least. You have to be driven, cold, hard and mentally tough as iron. My missus thinks I'm a bit weird.

Michael Owen