Gonzalo Higuain Quotes

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

In football, you have to be strong in the head. The mentality is important, and I do have this quality so I can keep going.

I'm mentally strong.

The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.

I am mentally strong.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

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.

I'm really tough. It's a state of mind.

I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

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

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.

Being tough is probably the biggest thing that NFL players are known for, having that kind of toughness.

Fighting, especially at this level, is about getting through adversity. You position yourself mentally to go out and take on obstacles that stand in your way. In the Octagon and in life, you face tough situations and have every chance to quit, but the more adversity you push through, the more likely you are to be successful.

Defense is about will and effort and a certain toughness you have to have.

Believe me, I can be tough, physically and mentally.

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.

I'm lucky enough to be mentally strong, which I think is fundamental for a goalkeeper.

I have always been strong. My mentality is just that way; that's why I've been around so long.

You're not going to win mental warfare with me. I am one of the mentally toughest guys, if not the mentally toughest guy in the UFC.