Adrian Peterson Quotes

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

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.

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

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

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.

I may not be the most physically tough player, but I think mentally I'm right up there.

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

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.

You can only do so much in the gym or pool. Seventy per cent of it is physical, but the final 30 per cent is down to the mental capacity to actually control what you can do in competition.

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.

Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that's a pretty silly way to look at it.

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

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.

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.

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

One of the hardest parts of this game, and what I don't think people understand, is the mental side of it. They think, 'Oh, he's a big, stronger guy.' But let me tell you, and I believe this without question: It's not always the biggest, strongest, meanest, toughest-looking who gets the job done.

Learning how to compete is one of the most important things that an athlete can do. You can train as well as you possibly can and go compete and completely choke.

The NBA is 95% mental and 5% physical, so it's more in my favor now with me being older.

I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're fearless, and you also don't have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor.

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.