Bill Lee 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.

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

Half this game is 90 percent mental.

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

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

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

The thing with physical preparation is I have tons of friends who train at a really high level and who can give me advice. But with mental training, I don't really know anybody who has a much better mind for climbing, I guess, so I don't really know where I would go. It's not really a limiting factor for me.

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

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

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.

It's not only about a game and tennis, but it's more about the mental things sometimes.

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.

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

In football, you have to be strong in the head. The mentality is important, and I do have this quality so I can keep going.

I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

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.

I believe in greater self-sufficiency. International sport is tough, no doubt, but there shouldn't be too many crutches. In most cases sports psychologists are crutches, and they tend to soften rather than harden the players.

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.

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

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.