Edoardo Ponti Quotes

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

You play this sport in the mind, not only on the field.

Track and field is tougher physically, but golf is tougher mentally.

It's more of a mental sport because I know I can push harder than someone who doesn't know what his body can do.

The way I dig in to push myself through mountain climbs is totally psychological. I'm not designed to do that stuff. It's mind over matter.

Athletics is not so much about the legs. It's about the heart and mind.

The more mental strength you have, the better. If you look at some of the best players that we have seen over the years and that I have been playing with, mentally they are the best competitors as well, something I have worked hard on.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

In my opinion, the power of the mind in sport is vital. If you can overpower those physical risks mentally, you can get your body round it physically. I've made my body do things because of my mind that it shouldn't have been able to do.

Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.

I think the biggest part of my game that's underestimated is the mental part of it.

I think the game is so mental. If you sit around and you're mentally strong, you're ready.

I know if I want to have a chance to beat the top players, I need to be mentally ready for that.

The mental side of sports, it's huge. It's such a massive part of the game.

The mental aspect of kicking is the difficult part. Physically, we still have to be in shape and perform on the field, but the thing that separates the ones who make it versus the ones who don't is definitely the mental side.

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

For me, that's the biggest thing, if something holds me back it's my mental game so I really tried to focus on that and just worked on that.

I definitely have been working a lot on the mental side of my game.

One of the hardest parts of this game, and what I don't think people understand, is the mental side of it. They think, 'Oh, he's a big, stronger guy.' But let me tell you, and I believe this without question: It's not always the biggest, strongest, meanest, toughest-looking who gets the job done.