Jae Crowder Quotes

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

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.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

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.

I think I have become mentally stronger now, and I have full confidence that I can finish close matches.

Sometimes you have to work through some things, and the mental side of kicking is definitely there.

Tennis is a tough sport - a long year, a lot of matches, a lot of travelling. It's not easy so being mentally tough is a big attribute. It doesn't come easy, you have to work on it.

I learned that one's mentality can influence how they react to physical obstacles.

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

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

I am mentally strong.

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

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

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

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

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

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

Psychological edge is massive in sprinting.

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.

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.

How prepared we are mentally is very important.

The mental focus it takes to compete against the best players in the world is not easy to maintain. Developing mental toughness is a learned trait, and if you can't develop it in your pursuit of success, you likely won't last in any competitive line of work for more than a cup of coffee.

For the most part I consider myself a mentally strong player.

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.