James Allen Quotes

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.

You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is.

Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.

My mental strength was definitely a weakness back in the karting days, and I've worked hard on that to be as ready as possible for whenever I had the chance in F1.

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.

Once I dedicated my time to mixed martial arts, I became careful about what I let into my mind. I made a goal of being the best on Earth in mixed martial arts and fighting. I wanted to build my mind into something good, not just of the world. I wanted to be different.

You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.

I always work on my mind and my game.

To make physical gains, you would go to the gym and lift weights. It's the same for the mental side. The work you put in on the mental side needs the same dedication as the physical side.

Mentality beats quality.

I know how strong I am mentally, how I work on myself.

Everyone has their own greatness. Whether you reach your own greatness depends on your environment, your structure, the company you keep and your attitude.

If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.