Rasheed Wallace Quotes

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

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

I definitely have been working a lot on the mental side of my game.

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

Everyone works so hard on their game and on their body. Most of the time, it comes down to who is more relaxed mentally; on the court while playing and off the court.

As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

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.

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

You have to be that 1 percent or 2 percent better physically so you have more power and energy left than your opponent when you go to a third set.

You play this sport in the mind, not only on the field.

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.

People turn professional and they are not running as fast as they did in college because it is a lot different, but I wanted to make sure that I didn't have that kind of transition and always stayed on top.

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

Would I still be playing at the top level at the age of 37 years if I had any weaknesses?

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.

Since a very young age, I've dreamt of being a professional soccer player, and from a psychological and mental aspect, I've tried to prepare myself to be a good player.

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

The same way you train yourself to be physically gifted player - whether you do weights, or running to get in shape or swimming - the mental side is the same way. You've got to train yourself to be ready for whatever.

In high school, you can just go out there and play. In the NFL it was so much more mental.

Everyone knows how to play tennis, but it's the mind that really controls everything.

Every rider trains their muscles but few train their brain.

The mental part of the game, being able to free up on the tennis court, is much easier said than done.

I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring.

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.