Wladimir Klitschko Quotes

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.

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I'm the strongest dude you're ever going to meet.

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.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

I believe in greater self-sufficiency. International sport is tough, no doubt, but there shouldn't be too many crutches. In most cases sports psychologists are crutches, and they tend to soften rather than harden the players.

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.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

It's all a mind thing, just all mental. You have to know going into the game you have to play at a high level, as many minutes, stuff like that. It's just all mental. You get yourself mentally prepared for it and go out there and play.

The mind is a very strong thing.

My mind is strong.

I know how to zone myself in and just play the game.

Many people ask, 'What do you need mentally to succeed in F1?' I say, 'What do you mean mentally?'

I'm more about mind over muscle. My mindset needs to be the fittest, because it drags my body through whatever needs to be done. A lot of people neglect training their mind and their self-belief, but I believe that's crucial.

I always work on my mind and my game.

I firmly believe in mind over matter.

Mental strength is something you either have or you haven't.

The most important part for me is mentally. Physically, I know I'm going to put the work in. That's not even a question. But mentally you may have some days where it's tougher.

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

I am mentally strong.

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation.

I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body.

As much as we pump iron and we run to build our strength up, we need to build our mental strength up... so we can focus... so we can be in concert with one another.

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