Darren Till Quotes

The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.

The mental game is what separates the good players from the great players. So anything I can do to get that mental edge to help me stay my best, I'm gonna try and do it.

Nine times out of 10 the smarter or mentally focused fighter comes out on top.

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

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else.

The best players have the mental advantage throughout the league.

Psychological edge is massive in sprinting.

The mental side of sports, it's huge. It's such a massive part of the game.

I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.

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

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

I think the biggest part of my game that's underestimated is the mental part of it.

I think the game is so mental. If you sit around and you're mentally strong, you're ready.

Some players aren't able to show their ability in Europe, but some players can - I think the most important quality in the successful players is that they are mentally strong.

The most important thing in a fighter is his mentality. Do you really believe that you're the baddest dude on the planet?

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

I think more of my tennis is more to do with the mental side of things rather than technique or, you know, tactics or anything like that.

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.