Eliud Kipchoge Quotes

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.

You can train your mental strength just like you train your body. If your body looks fit or ripped, it looks strong, and you can flex your muscles. So, physically, you have a certain strength. Mentally, it's the same thing. You can train your psychological strength.

I think an individual's mind is a marvellous thing. I truly believe that if your mind is strong, your body tries hard to keep pace with it.

The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That's my main opponent - making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won't let you.

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.

I have always maintained that in basketball the importance of the mental to the physical is about four to one.

Staying more controlled mentally stemmed from taking my fitness more seriously. When you're doing track work, sprints and so on, it's pretty painful, but that does make you feel better prepared and therefore mentally stronger when you're going into a match. You know, without a doubt, that you are strong enough to last.

I think, mind over body, it's real.

I consider myself a decent athlete but when I started to train martial arts like Kung Fu, I realised it had nothing to do with how athletic you are. It's all mental. It's what you know, how you use it and your mental toughness and composure. It's incredible.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.

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

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

I can work hard and be disciplined like a soldier, but I could never reach their level of fitness.

Human power is to be reckoned less by physical vigor than by mental strength.

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.

In real life I have conquered my worst fears by fighting and beating bigger wrestlers in dangal. So I am not afraid of anything.

Every game is mentally and physically tough but we get through it and it makes you stronger.

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.

Training helps you get physically stronger and a lot of times it helps you push the bar mentally as well.

Mentally, I am very strong; physically I am very strong. I think that keeps me going. That keeps me strong all the time.

I'm able to control the body through just the power of the mind.

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

I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.

You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.