Alex Honnold Quotes

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.

You have to train your mind just as much as you train your body.

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 mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

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

The mental aspect of kicking is the difficult part. Physically, we still have to be in shape and perform on the field, but the thing that separates the ones who make it versus the ones who don't is definitely the mental side.

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

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

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

My dad is the person who taught me how important the mental side of the game is. He studied kung fu growing up and he taught me how to meditate when I was a kid.

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.

Great athletes last because they let the mental do all the work. What we do as hoofers is not so much a physical strain as everybody thinks. It's more of a mental stretch.

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

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.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

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.

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

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.

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

I give a tremendous amount of weight to the mental aspect of physical activity and what it does for me.

I know how to prepare my head.

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.