Jake LaMotta Quotes

I guess once you've seen Uma Thurman beaten up endlessly in the 'Kill Bill' movies, you think, 'If Uma can take it, what's the matter with me?'

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I can play with pain. It doesn't bother me.

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.

You're taught that you can keep going in the military. Your point of collapse is not what you thought it was. Your body is built to survive, and when you think you're going to collapse, you still have so much more left in you.

Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Look at my face. Does it look like I can take a good hit?

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

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It's in your mind. We're all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

The manager is always on at us about mental strength anyway. He just comes in and stresses how important it is to be strong mentally, to succeed you've got to go through pain both mentally and physically.

A little pain is no problem.

I enjoy the pain my body goes through. If you're in a hard moment in a fight, there's a lot of things go through your mind. But the most important thing to me is family.

The punches that don't knock you out are the ones you feel the most.

The Special Ops community has always been about mental toughness.

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.

If you get into an armbar and someone locks it down on you, it's easy for you to tap out, but sometimes dealing with certain things, fighting through certain adversities, and being that I've been in some of the toughest situations in life, it just gives me an edge on my opponent that I'm going to torture him and beat him up.

Just knowing you can get into a cage and do that is part of how the mindset of a fighter can be applied to pretty much any situation really.

I've taken great pride in not being fragile.